Human rights after Hitler : the lost history of prosecuting Axis war crimes / by Plesch, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Prosecuting rape : a test case of the modern relevance of WW2 legal practice -- Key issues faced in prosecuting SGBV today -- Conclusion -- A new paradigm for providing justice for international human rights violations -- Legal and political amnesia -- Creation of the UNWCC -- Official resistance to prosecuting war crimes -- Chinese and indian leadership -- A global system of complementary justice -- The development of key international legal principles -- When Stalin, Churchill, and FDR condemned the Holocaust -- Early Allied condemnations of the Holocaust and Nazi atrocities -- The declaration -- Abandonment of the Jews nonetheless -- Pursuing war criminals all over the world -- A global achievement -- Commission members and their trial structures -- Conclusion -- The Holocaust indictments : prosecuting the "footsoldiers of atrocity" -- Belgium -- Czechoslovakia -- France -- Greece -- Luxembourg -- The Netherlands -- Norway -- Poland -- Yugoslavia -- United Kingdom and United States -- United States -- Fair trials and collective responsibility for criminal acts -- The fundamentals of fair trials -- "It wasn't illegal when the action was taken" : the nullum crimen defense -- Hearsay -- The rights of the accused -- Command responsibility -- Superior orders -- Group responsibility -- Responsibility -- Reprisals and the execution of hostages -- The overall effort to secure the rights of the accused at the time of trial -- Conclusion -- Crimes against humanity : the "freedom to lynch," and the indictments of Adolf Hitler -- Crimes against humanity -- The crime of aggression -- Universal jurisdiction -- Liberating the Nazis -- Forgetting the Nazi past to build a West German future -- Harry S. …”
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