War Crimes and Trials: A Primary Source Guide
byJames Larry Taulbee, PhD, is professor emeritus of political science at Emory University. He is author of several books as well as more than 175 peer-reviewed articles, op-eds, and other opinion pieces.
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- Description
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This comprehensive reference work serves as an important resource for anyone interested in the international prosecution of war crimes and how it has evolved.
• Walks readers through the evolution of present standards of battlefield conduct• Concisely summarizes the background of each war crime trial
• Shows through testimony how standards have been applied in war crime trials
• Leads readers to understand the difficulty of international prosecution for war crimes
• Provides resources for further study
- Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
War Crimes and Trials: A Primary Source Guide
Author(s): Taulbee, James;Contributors: Taulbee, James;Abstract:This comprehensive reference work serves as an important resource for anyone interested in the international prosecution of war crimes and how it has evolved.
• Walks readers through the evolution of present standards of battlefield conduct• Concisely summarizes the background of each war crime trial
• Shows through testimony how standards have been applied in war crime trials
• Leads readers to understand the difficulty of international prosecution for war crimes
• Provides resources for further study
SortTitle: war crimes and trials: a primary source guideAuthor Info:James Larry TaulbeeauthorJames Larry Taulbee, PhD, is professor emeritus of political science at Emory University. He is author of several books as well as more than 175 peer-reviewed articles, op-eds, and other opinion pieces.
eISBN-13: 9781440838019Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440838019.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440838002Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 408Publication Date: 20181031Table of Contents pages: 1 2
- Cover Cover11
- Title iii4
- Copyright iv5
- Contents v6
- Preface xv16
- Prelude: Purposes and Plan of the Book xix20
- Abbreviations and Legal Terms xxi22
- Chapter 1: What Is a War Crime? 128
- Chapter 2: World War I: Leipzig 1744
- Chapter 3: Between World War I and World War II 2855
- Chapter 4: World War II 3966
- Chapter 5: Anton Dostler Case 4471
- Chapter 6: German Concentration and Extermination Camps 5481
- Chapter 7: Zyklon B Trial 5885
- Chapter 8: Belsen Trial 6895
- Chapter 9: Buchenwald Trial 78105
- Chapter 10: The Malmedy Massacre Trial 85112
- Chapter 11: The Nuremberg Trial 92119
- Document: International Conference on Military Trials (London Charter) 92119
- A Note on the Tokyo Trials 94121
- Nuremberg: Jurisdiction and Procedure 94121
- Nuremberg 95122
- Hermann Göring 96123
- Rudolf Höss (Hoess) 97124
- Trial Summary #7: Trial of the Major War Criminals 97124
- Was the Nuremberg Trial an Exercise in Victor’s Justice? 101128
- Significance 102129
- References 103130
- Chapter 12: Allied Control Council Law No. 10 104131
- Chapter 13: The Medical Case (Doctors’ Trial): United States v. Karl Brandt, et al. 109136
- Chapter 14: Einsatzgruppen Case: United States of America v. Otto Ohlendorf, et al. 115142
- Chapter 15: Tokyo War Crimes Trial 122149
- International Military Tribunal for the Far East 122149
- Alliance with Germany 123150
- The War in the Pacific 124151
- Emperor Hirohito 125152
- General Hideki Tōjō 127154
- Composition of the Court 127154
- Trial Summary #10: Trial of Major Japanese War Criminals 127154
- The Tokyo Trials and Victor’s Justice 132159
- References 133160
- Chapter 16: General Tomoyuki Yamashita 134161
- Chapter 17: Khabarovsk War Crime Trial 141168
- Chapter 18: The Eichmann Trial 148175
- Chapter 19: My Lai Massacre: Vietnam War 160187
- Chapter 20: Updating the Rules of War after World War II 173200
- What Changed? 173200
- The United Nations Charter 173200
- The Geneva Conventions 176203
- Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Conditions of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field of August 12, 1949 (Geneva I) 177204
- Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Conditions of Wounded, Sick, and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea of August 12, 1949 (Geneva II) 178205
- Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of August 12, 1949 (Geneva III) 179206
- Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of August 12, 1949 (Geneva IV) 181208
- The Common Articles 182209
- The Additional Protocols 183210
- Grave Breaches and War Crimes 193220
- Moving from the Law on the Books to Making the Law Work in Action 193220
- References 194221
- Chapter 21: The Genocide Convention 195222
- Chapter 22: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia 201228
- Chapter 23: Duško Tadić Trial 212239
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