War crimes

Simon Wiesenthal spent four and a half years in Mauthausen concentration camp during World War II.

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This comprehensive reference work serves as an important resource for anyone interested in the international prosecution of war crimes and how it has evolved.

After the Armenian genocide of 1915, in which over a million Armenians died, thousands of Armenians lived and worked in the Turkish state alongside those who had persecuted their communities.

This proposes a new framework for atrocity prevention, featuring scholars from around the globe including three former UN special advisers.

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This comprehensive reference work serves as an important resource for anyone interested in the international prosecution of war crimes and how it has evolved.

He's the worst Nazi war criminal you've never heard ofSidekick to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler and supervisor of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, General Hans Kammler was responsible for the construction of Hitler's slave labor sites and concentration camps.

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Until 1919, European wars were settled without post-war trials, and individuals were not punishable under international law.

While the flames of World War II still raged, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin issued a warning to the Nazi leaders.

The wars that accompanied the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s were the deadliest European conflicts since World War II.

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This volume provides an indispensable resource for anyone studying the Holocaust.

A rigourous analysis of context in transitional justice, examining the successes and failures of truth and reconciliation commissions in post-conflict settings.

From the 'show' trials of the 1920s and 1930s to the London Conference, this book examines the Soviet role in the Nuremberg IMT trial through the prism of the ideas and practices of earlier Soviet legal history, detailing the evolution of Stalin's ideas about the trail of Nazi war criminals.

Base Encounters explores the social friction that US bases have caused in South Korea, where the entertainment districts next to American military installations have come under much scrutiny.

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2019 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award winner Scholars from a number of disciplines have, especially since the advent of the war on terror, developed critical perspectives on a cluster of related topics in contemporary life: militarization, surveillance, policing, biopolitics (the relation between state power and physical bodies), and the like.

The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century-the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention.

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The behind-the-scenes story of how today's war crimes tribunals came to beWithin days of Madeleine Albright's confirmation as U.

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Geoffrey Robertson QC, acclaimed author of The Case of the Pope, presents a freshly updated version of his masterwork, Crimes Against HumanityIn this fresh edition of the book that has inspired the global justice movement, Geoffrey Robertson QC explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder - the crimes against humanity that have disfigured the world.

This timely handbook offers an examination of man's history of war crimes and the parallel development of rules of war to prevent them in the future.

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Never before has such damning evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity been revealed in the midst of a conflict.

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The number of non-state actors, in the past not accountable for committing international crimes or violating human rights, is proliferating rapidly.

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A unique view of European governments'' reaction to genocide in the post-Cold War world.

This book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of the twelve war crimes trials held in the American zone of occupation between 1946 and 1949, collectively known as the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMTs).