The Mauthausen Trial : : American Military Justice in Germany / / Tomaz Jardim.
Shortly after 9:00 a.m. on May 27, 1947, the first of forty-nine men condemned to death for war crimes at Mauthausen concentration camp mounted the gallows at Landsberg prison near Munich. The mass execution that followed resulted from an American military trial conducted at Dachau in the spring of...
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Jardim, Tomaz, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Mauthausen Trial : American Military Justice in Germany / Tomaz Jardim. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011] ©2012 1 online resource (304 p.) : 21 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. War Crimes Trials and the U.S. Army -- CHAPTER 2. American Investigators at Mauthausen -- CHAPTER 3. The Prosecution Crafts Its Case -- CHAPTER 4. The Defendants in the Dock -- CHAPTER 5. Judgment at Dachau -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX: The Mauthausen Trial Charge Sheet -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Shortly after 9:00 a.m. on May 27, 1947, the first of forty-nine men condemned to death for war crimes at Mauthausen concentration camp mounted the gallows at Landsberg prison near Munich. The mass execution that followed resulted from an American military trial conducted at Dachau in the spring of 1946-a trial that lasted only thirty-six days and yet produced more death sentences than any other in American history.The Mauthausen trial was part of a massive series of proceedings designed to judge and punish Nazi war criminals in the most expedient manner the law would allow. There was no doubt that the crimes had been monstrous. Yet despite meting out punishment to a group of incontestably guilty men, the Mauthausen trial reveals a troubling and seldom-recognized face of American postwar justice-one characterized by rapid proceedings, lax rules of evidence, and questionable interrogations.Although the better-known Nuremberg trials are often regarded as epitomizing American judicial ideals, these trials were in fact the exception to the rule. Instead, as Tomaz Jardim convincingly demonstrates, the rough justice of the Mauthausen trial remains indicative of the most common-and yet least understood-American approach to war crimes prosecution. The Mauthausen Trial forces reflection on the implications of compromising legal standards in order to guarantee that guilty people do not walk free. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021) Atrocities. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Austria Austria Germany Dachau. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Austria. Mauthausen Trial, Dachau, Germany, 1946. Recht. Trials (Genocide) Germany Dachau. Trials (Genocide). War crime trials Germany Dachau. War crime trials. World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities. HISTORY / Holocaust. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011 9783110261189 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2011 9783110261233 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET PHILOSOPHIE UND GESCHICHTE 2011 9783110261257 ZDB-23-DGE Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 print 9780674061576 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674063129 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674063129 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674063129/original |
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