Confronting war crimes of the Wehrmacht
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Confronting war crimes of the Wehrmacht
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number909.82/0004
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]10575O
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Vienna, Austria
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Passagen
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2009
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp291-308
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]Series title[nb-NO]Passagen Gesellschaft.
NotesArticle from the book ''Justice and memory : confronting traumatic pasts : an international comparison' pp291-308
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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.