Jardim, Tomaz.

The Mauthausen Trial : American Military Justice in Germany. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (301 pages)

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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Mauthausen (Concentration camp).
War crime trials-Germany-Dachau.
Trials (Genocide)-Germany-Dachau.
World War, 1939-1945-Atrocities.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-Austria.


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