LEADER 03902nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910972166703321 005 20240416153749.0 010 $a9780674264731 010 $a0674264738 010 $a9780674063129 010 $a0674063120 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674063129 035 $a(CKB)2550000000074790 035 $a(OCoLC)768761303 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10518207 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000551677 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11379965 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000551677 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10526867 035 $a(PQKB)10150440 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300997 035 $a(DE-B1597)178119 035 $a(OCoLC)979752467 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674063129 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300997 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10518207 035 $a(Perlego)1133266 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000074790 100 $a20110314d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Mauthausen trial $eAmerican military justice in Germany /$fTomaz Jardim 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (301 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780674061576 311 08$a0674061578 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tCHAPTER 1. War Crimes Trials and the U.S. Army -- $tCHAPTER 2. American Investigators at Mauthausen -- $tCHAPTER 3. The Prosecution Crafts Its Case -- $tCHAPTER 4. The Defendants in the Dock -- $tCHAPTER 5. Judgment at Dachau -- $tConclusion -- $tAPPENDIX: The Mauthausen Trial Charge Sheet -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography of Primary Sources -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aShortly after 9:00 a.m. on May 27, 1947, the first of forty-nine men condemned to death for war crimes at Mauthausen concentration camp mounted the gallows at Landsberg prison near Munich. The mass execution that followed resulted from an American military trial conducted at Dachau in the spring of 1946-a trial that lasted only thirty-six days and yet produced more death sentences than any other in American history.The Mauthausen trial was part of a massive series of proceedings designed to judge and punish Nazi war criminals in the most expedient manner the law would allow. There was no doubt that the crimes had been monstrous. Yet despite meting out punishment to a group of incontestably guilty men, the Mauthausen trial reveals a troubling and seldom-recognized face of American postwar justice-one characterized by rapid proceedings, lax rules of evidence, and questionable interrogations.Although the better-known Nuremberg trials are often regarded as epitomizing American judicial ideals, these trials were in fact the exception to the rule. Instead, as Tomaz Jardim convincingly demonstrates, the rough justice of the Mauthausen trial remains indicative of the most common-and yet least understood-American approach to war crimes prosecution. The Mauthausen Trial forces reflection on the implications of compromising legal standards in order to guarantee that guilty people do not walk free. 606 $aWar crime trials$zGermany$zDachau 606 $aTrials (Genocide)$zGermany$zDachau 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAtrocities 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$zAustria 615 0$aWar crime trials 615 0$aTrials (Genocide) 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAtrocities. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 676 $a341.6/90268 700 $aJardim$b Tomaz$f1974-$01813522 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972166703321 996 $aThe Mauthausen trial$94366725 997 $aUNINA