The Malmedy Massacre : : The War Crimes Trial Controversy / / Steven P. Remy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Remy, Steven P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 15 halftones, 2 maps

During the Battle of the Bulge, Waffen SS soldiers shot 84 American prisoners near Malmedy, Belgium—the deadliest mass execution of U.S. soldiers during World War II. Drawing on newly declassified documents, Steven Remy revisits the massacre and the most infamously controversial war crimes trial in American history, to set the record straight.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: An American Courtroom in Dachau -- 1. The Commitments of a Bad Reputation: Terror War in the Ardennes -- 2. Now It Comes Home to Us: Creating the “Malmedy Massacre” -- 3. Like a Division Reunion: Launching the Investigation -- 4. The Psychological Approach: American Interrogators -- 5. Nazi Method Boys: The First Torture Allegations -- 6. A Monstrous Slaughter Machine: The Prosecution’s Case -- 7. Entirely a Heat of Battle Case: The Defense -- 8. Other Battlefields: Willis Everett and the Amnesty Campaign -- 9. The Sword of Public Opinion: The Torture Stories in the United States -- 10. The Daring Fists of Lieutenant Perl: Tales of Torture in Schwäbisch Hall -- 11. Avenging Angels: German Clergy and the Massacre -- 12. Lie Detectors: Interrogating American Interrogators -- 13. Red Jackets: Releasing the Prisoners -- Conclusion: Massacres, American Interrogators, and Postwar Memory -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index