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Landsman Stephan |
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Titolo |
Crimes of the Holocaust [[electronic resource] ] : the law confronts hard cases / / Stephan Landsman |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (318 p.) |
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Collana |
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Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights |
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Soggetti |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
War crime trials - Germany |
War crime trials - Israel |
War crime trials - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-294) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 Nuremberg -- Chapter 2 Eichmann -- Chapter 3 John Demjanjuk and Ivan the Terrible -- Chapter 4 lmre Finta -- Chapter 5 Prospects for the Prosecution of Genocide Perpetrators -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The problem of prosecuting individuals complicit in the Nazi regime's "Final Solution" is almost insurmountably complex and has produced ever less satisfying results as time has passed. In Crimes of the Holocaust, Stephan Landsman provides detailed analysis of the International Military Tribunal prosecution at Nuremberg in 1945, the Eichmann trial in Israel in 1961, the 1986 Demanjuk trial in Israel, and the 1990 prosecution of Imre Finta in Canada. Landsman presents each case and elaborates the difficulties inherent in achieving both a fair trial and a measure of justice in the aftermath of heinous crimes. In the face of few historical and legal precedents for such war crime prosecutions, each legal action relies on the framework of its predecessors. However, this only compounds the problematic issues arising from the Nuremberg proceedings.Meticulously combing volumes of testimony and documentary information about each case, Landsman offers judicious and critical assessments of the proceedings. He levels pointed criticism at numerous elements of this relatively recent judicial |
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