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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Auteurs principaux:Port, Andrew I. (Auteur)
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Langue:English
Publié:Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2023]
© 2023
Édition:First printing
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Table des matières
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.