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The Mauthausen Trial : American Military Justice in Germany.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (301 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674063129
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Mauthausen TrialDDC classification:
  • 341.6/90268
LOC classification:
  • KK73
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. War Crimes Trials and the U.S. Army -- 2. American Investigators at Mauthausen -- 3. The Prosecution Crafts Its Case -- 4. The Defendants in the Dock -- 5. Judgment at Dachau -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Mauthausen Trial Charge Sheet -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: The Nuremberg trials are regarded as models of postwar justice, but the Mauthausen trial was the norm and reveals the troubling face of American military proceedings. This rough justice, with its lax rules of evidence and questionable interrogations, compromised legal standards in order to guarantee that guilty people did not walk free.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. War Crimes Trials and the U.S. Army -- 2. American Investigators at Mauthausen -- 3. The Prosecution Crafts Its Case -- 4. The Defendants in the Dock -- 5. Judgment at Dachau -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Mauthausen Trial Charge Sheet -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

The Nuremberg trials are regarded as models of postwar justice, but the Mauthausen trial was the norm and reveals the troubling face of American military proceedings. This rough justice, with its lax rules of evidence and questionable interrogations, compromised legal standards in order to guarantee that guilty people did not walk free.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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