Law, History, and Justice : : Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century / / Annette Weinke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Weinke, Annette,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)

Since the nineteenth century, the development of international humanitarian law has been marked by complex entanglements of legal theory, historical trauma, criminal prosecution, historiography, and politics. All of these factors have played a role in changing views on the applicability of international law and human-rights ideas to state-organized violence, which in turn have been largely driven by transnational responses to German state crimes. Here, Annette Weinke gives a groundbreaking long-term history of the political, legal and academic debates concerning German state and mass violence in the First World War, during the National Socialist era and the Holocaust, and under the GDR.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Hague—Berlin—Versailles -- Chapter 2 Washington—Nuremberg—Bonn -- Chapter 3 Bonn—Ludwigsburg—Jerusalem -- Chapter 4 Salzburg—Bonn and Berlin -- Conclusion -- Final Reflections -- Abbreviations -- Select Chronology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index