Punishment
TítuloPunishment
Autor
Call number940.5318/0385
Número del objeto06034ah
Lugar de publicaciónOxford, England
EditorialOxford University Press
Año de publicación
2010
Paginaciónpp524-539
MaterialArticle
SerieOxford handbooks
ISBN9780199211869
NotesArticle from the book ' The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies' pp524-539
Descripción
The victorious Allies launched a series of postwar judicial proceedings against accused war ciminals that continues more than 60 years after World War II ended. The most famous post war trials seldom centred on the Holocaust. Virtually all postwar prosecutions categorized the offences as war crimes, crimes against peace, crimes against humanity or ordinary murder and manslaughter. However recognition of the significance of the Holocaust came about in other ways