The betrayal : the Nuremberg trials and German divergence / Kim Christian Priemel

At the end of World War II the Allies faced a threefold challenge: how to punish perpetrators of appalling crimes for which the categories of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' had to be coined; how to explain that these had been committed by Germany, of all nations; and ho...

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Main Authors:Priemel, Kim Christian (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
©[2016]
Edition:First edition
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Drawing lines
Mapping the West : Nuremberg's sources
Contructing Nuremberg
The lunatic fringe, mostly
Paving the Sonderweg
Saving capitalism
Trying modernity or La Trahison des Clercs
East by south-east : the military cases
Reintegrating the other
Conclusion.