Postwar trials and justice
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Postwar trials and justice
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318/0549
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]10651L
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Madison, Wisconsin, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]The University of Wisconsin Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2020
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp178-196
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]Series title[nb-NO]Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history.
NotesArticle from the book 'Understanding and teaching the Holocaust' pp178-196
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
The postwar trials of Nazis elicits a number of questions. How many Nazis were tried and convicted and were the punishments appropriate to their crimes? To what extent did Jewish survivors contribute to the prosecution of Nazi criminals? The iconic postwar trial was the Nuremberg Trial, and indicted twenty three defendants, all high-ranking Nazis. They were charged with conspiracy, waging aggressive war, war crimes and crimes against humanity