The Nuremberg Trials (Vol. 22)

Courtroom Records of Nazi War Crimes, Holocaust Evidence, and the Legal Reckoning After World War II

von International Military Tribunal

388 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Nuremberg Trials (Vol. 22) forms part of the official record of the Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, preserving the juridical drama in which evidence, argument, and judgment were made into historical testimony. Its style is not literary in the conventional sense, but documentary: precise, procedural, cumulative, and morally grave. Situated at the origin of modern international criminal law, the volume records a decisive attempt to give legal form to unprecedented atrocity. The "author" is the International Military Tribunal itself, established by the Allied powers under the London Charter of 1945. Composed of judges and prosecutors from the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, the Tribunal emerged from the ruins of the Second World War and the discovery of Nazi crimes. Its purpose was not merely punitive, but evidentiary and civilizational: to demonstrate that aggressive war, crimes against humanity, and systematic murder could be judged by law. This volume is essential for readers of legal history, Holocaust studies, military ethics, and twentieth-century politics. Demanding but indispensable, it rewards careful attention with a profound understanding of how law confronts catastrophe.

• Themen: Recht Recht bestimmter Jurisdiktionen und bestimmter Rechtsgebiete Primäre Rechtsquellen Fallrecht, Präzedenzfälle
• ISBN: 9788028376376
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.05.2024
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Sharp Ink