Never again : Germans and genocide after the Holocaust / Andrew I. Port
As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a dilemma. Should the Federal Republic deploy its military to the Balkans to prevent a genocide, or would departing from postwar Germany’s pacifist tradition open the door to renewed militarism? In short, when Germans...
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| Main Authors: | Port, Andrew I. (Author) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2023] © 2023 |
| Edition: | First printing |
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| Online Access: | Cover Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Table of Contents |
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| Prologue |
| Introduction : the consummate country of contrition |
| Cold War genocide : carnage in Cambodia |
| Pol Pot is like Hitler |
| Asia's Auschwitz |
| Why don't we act? |
| No one can say they didn’t know |
| Even angels live perilously |
| Genocide after German unification : crimes against humanity in Bosnia and Rwanda |
| It Is genocide and must be designated as such |
| Our revulsion against military force is understandable |
| Humanity in action |
| Germany cannot play the role of global gendarme |
| Crossing the Rubicon |
| Conclusion : acting after Auschwitz |
| Epilogue. |
