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A research guide with a chronology of treaties and events; brief biographies of activists and other important personages; the texts of the Geneva Conventions, statues establishing international tribunals and the International Criminal Court, and other pertinent documents, a directory of governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and listings of print and nonprint research materials. Also included are two interpretive essays that, in turn, look...

Beginning in late 1945 national courts convened to prosecute Japanese military personnel for war crimes. The defendants included ethnic Koreans and Taiwanese who had served with the armed forces as Japanese subjects. From the first investigations during the war to the final release of prisoners in 1958, Japanese War Criminals shows how a simple effort to punish the guilty evolved into a multidimensional struggle that muddied the assignment of criminal...

"The U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group investigated atrocities committed in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. These young Americans gathered evidence, interviewed witnesses, apprehended suspects and prosecuted defendants at trials held at Dachau. From the ruins of the Third Reich arose a Nazi underground that preyed on Americans--especially members of the WCG"--

Drawing on an extensive range of sources including the minutes of the British prosecution team and the minutes of the tribunal's closed deliberations, this study tracesthe trail's legal, political, and logistical problems and vividly recreates the courtroom drama.

How much did the Allies know of the horrors being committed against European Jews at the hands of the German Nazis, and were they in a position to act against them as they were occurring? This programme considers this unsettling question before exploring the Allied response after the war, when the full and harrowing extent of the Holocaust was revealed. A close examination of the Nuremburg Trials provides students with insight into the considered...

Behind the scenes story of Nazi war crimes trials, by the man who was in charge of U.S. Army War Crimes Trials Section in the American Zone of occupation.

After the atrocities of World War II, the cry of conscience was "never again!" As this program demonstrates, that bitterly learned injunction went unheeded throughout much of the world. The chronicle of genocide continues with a look at Mao's purges in China, Cambodia under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, the Arab/Israeli conflict, border wars in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and killing in Central America. Guests include Dr. Ben Kiernan, Genocide Studies Program...

Examines the American government's campaign since 1940 to keep European Jews out of the U.S. and to secretly harbor Nazi war criminals, centering on the trial of John "Iwan" Demjanjuk, who was finally brought to justice in 2011.

World War II in Europe didn't end on the battlefield; it ended in the courtroom. This A & E Special covers the Nuremberg trials, which set a new standard for atrocity: "crimes against humanity.?

An eyewitness account of the first major international war-crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg trials, this work is a guide to the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The historic trial of the "Butcher of the Balkans" began in 2002 and ended abruptly with Milosevic's death in 2006. The author, a lawyer who spent three years in the former Yugoslavia during Milosevic's reign, had a front row seat...