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Author Weingartner, James J., 1940-

Title Americans, Germans and war crimes justice : law, memory and "the good war" / James J. Weingartner
Published Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents War crimes and the law of war -- Building a case -- A town brought to trial -- "Worms on the ground" -- Divided counsel -- Fed to the lions -- Germans as victims -- Posttrial drama -- Two kinds of justice? -- Memory -- August 4, 2003
Summary During World War II, both Americans and Germans committed war crimes, but the ways in which the U.S. Army dealt with crimes committed by their own soldiers were drastically different from its treatment of German atrocities. In fact, by the standards the U.S. Army used to try enemy commanders for war crimes, General George Patton could have been deemed a war criminal
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-223) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Germany -- Borkum
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Germany -- Voerde (North Rhine-Westphalia)
War crimes -- Germany -- Borkum
War crimes -- Germany -- Voerde (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Prisoners of war -- Crimes against -- Germany
Prisoners of war -- Crimes against -- United States
War crime trials -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects.
LAW -- International.
Atrocities
Ethics
War crime trials
War crimes
Germany
Germany -- Borkum
Germany -- Voerde (North Rhine-Westphalia)
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010052047
ISBN 9780313381935
0313381933
1283017490
9781283017497
9786613017499
6613017493