The Nuremberg military tribunals and the origins of international criminal law / Kevin Jon Heller.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Description: xviii, 509 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0199668167
- 9780199668168
- 341.690268 23
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Originally published: 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 1. The Origins of the Zonal Trials -- 2. The OCC and the Tribunals -- 3. The Evolution of the Trial Program -- 4. The Trials -- 5. Jurisdiction and Legal Character of the Tribunals -- 6. Evidence -- 7. Procedure -- 8. Crimes Against Peace -- 9. War Crimes -- 10. Crimes Against Humanity -- 11. Modes of Participation -- 12. Conspiracy, Enterprise Liability, and Criminal Membership -- 13. Defenses -- 14. Sentencing -- 15. Aftermath -- 16. Legacy -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Table of Defendants -- Appendix B. Charter of the International Military Tribunal -- Appendix C. Control Council Law No. 10 -- Appendix D. Ordinance No. 7 -- Appendix E. Uniform Rules of Procedure.
"This book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of the twelve war crimes trials held in the American zone of occupation between 1946 and 1949, collectively known as the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMTs). The judgments the NMTs produced have played a critical role in the development of international criminal law, particularly in terms of how courts currently understand war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression. The trials are also of tremendous historical importance, because they provide a far more comprehensive picture of Nazi atrocities than their more famous predecessor, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (IMT). The IMT focused exclusively on the 'major war criminals'-the Goerings, the Hesses, the Speers. The NMTs, by contrast, prosecuted doctors, lawyers, judges, industrialists, bankers-the private citizens and lower-level functionaries whose willingness to take part in the destruction of millions of innocents manifested what Hannah Arendt famously called 'the banality of evil'. "--Publisher's website.
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