Punishment
TitrePunishment
Auteur
Call number940.5318/0385
N° d'objet06034ah
Lieu de publicationOxford, England
EditeurOxford University Press
Année de publication
2010
Paginationpp524-539
MatérielArticle
SérieOxford handbooks
ISBN9780199211869
NotesArticle from the book ' The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies' pp524-539
Description
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