Confronting war crimes of the Wehrmacht
TitleConfronting war crimes of the Wehrmacht
Author
Call number909.82/0004
Object number10575O
Place of publicationVienna, Austria
PublisherPassagen
Year of publication
2009
Physical descriptionpp291-308
MaterialArticle
Series titlePassagen Gesellschaft.
NotesArticle from the book ''Justice and memory : confronting traumatic pasts : an international comparison' pp291-308
Description
In 1946, the Allied powers International Military Tribunal condemned two dozen top Wehrmacht officers to death or long prison terms for war crimes. During the subsequent Nuremberg Trials hundreds of members of the military- among them many Austrians- were convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity.