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Author Weingartner, James J

Title A Peculiar Crusade : Willis M. Everett and the Malmedy Massacre
Published New York : NYU Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (283 pages)
Contents Preface; l The Everetts of Atlanta; 2 The Internal Enemy; 3 The World beyond Atlanta; 4 Under the Lights; 5 Of the Particulars and Charge, Guilty; 6 Death by Hanging; 7 A Troublesome Conscience; 8 An Old-Fashioned Sense of Justice; 9 "The Lord Has Given Me Strength to Continue"; l0 A Michael Kohlhaas in Atlanta; Epilogue; Notes; Index; About the Author
Summary In the wake of World War II, 74 members of the Nazi SS were accused of a war crime--soon to be known as the Malmedy Massacre--in which a large number of American prisoners of war were murdered during the Battle of the Bulge. All of the German defendants were found guilty and more than half were sentenced to death. Yet none was executed and, a decade later, all had been released from prison. This outcome resulted primarily from the dogged efforts of Willis M. Everett, Jr., a prominent Atlanta attorney who jeopardized his status as a member of the social elite to defend with great zeal and commi
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Subject Everett, Willis Mead, 1900-1960.
SUBJECT Everett, Willis Mead, 1900-1960 fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
Lawyers -- United States -- Biography
War crime trials -- Germany.
Malmedy Massacre, 1944-1945.
HISTORY / Military / World War II.
Atrocities
Lawyers
War crime trials
Germany
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814795125
0814795129
0814793665
9780814793664