The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 12)

Allied Prosecution Records of Nazi War Crimes and the Origins of Human Rights Law

von International Military Tribunal

388 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Volume 12 of The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings preserves a crucial segment of the official record of the International Military Tribunal, where documentary evidence, witness testimony, and legal argument converge to expose the administrative, military, and ideological machinery of Nazi criminality. Its style is not literary in the conventional sense but forensic, procedural, and starkly evidentiary; yet the cumulative effect is profoundly dramatic. Situated at the origins of modern international criminal law, the volume illuminates how law sought language adequate to unprecedented atrocities. The "author" is the International Military Tribunal itself, convened by the Allied powers after the Second World War to try major Nazi leaders for crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Its proceedings reflect the labor of judges, prosecutors, translators, stenographers, and witnesses working under immense historical pressure. The tribunal's documentary method arose from the need not merely to punish individuals, but to establish an authoritative public record against denial, distortion, and impunity. This volume is recommended for historians, legal scholars, students of genocide, and readers seeking primary-source access to one of the twentieth century's defining moral and juridical reckonings. Demanding but indispensable, it rewards patient reading with an unmatched view of justice confronting state-sponsored barbarism.

• Themen: Recht Internationales Recht
• ISBN: 9788027375653
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.05.2023
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: e-artnow