Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory
- ISBN-10
- 0198208723
- ISBN-13
- 9780198208723
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 273
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Donald Bloxham
Description
When the Allies tried German war criminals at the end of WWII they were trying not only to punish the guilty but also to set down a history of Nazism and of what had happened in Europe. Bloxham shows the reality was that these proceeedings failed.
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