The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and HistoryBased on extensive archival research, this book offers the first historical examination of the arrest, trial, and punishment of the leaders of the SS-Einsatzgruppen - the mobile security and killing units employed by the Nazis in their racial war on the eastern front. Sent to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, four units of Einsatzgruppen along with reinforcements, murdered approximately one million Soviet civilians in open air shootings and in gas vans and, in 1947, twenty-four leaders of these units were indicted for crimes against humanity and war crimes for their part in the murders. In addition to a describing the legal proceedings, this book also examines recent historiographical trends and perpetrator paradigms and expounds on such contested issues as the timing and genesis of the Final Solution, the perpetrators' route to crime and their motivation for killing, as well as discussing the tensions between law and history. |
Contents
The United States and the Origins of the Subsequent | 19 |
Otto Ohlendorf and the Origins of the Einsatzgruppen Trial | 46 |
Defendants | 96 |
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The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History Hilary Earl No preview available - 2010 |
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Adolf Ott affidavit American April Aschenauer August behavior believed Biberstein Blobel Blume Board on Clemency Braune British career civilians committed convicted court crimes against humanity crimes trials criminals defendants Eichmann Kommandos Einsatzgruppen leaders Einsatzgruppen trial Einsatzkommando Erich Naumann Erwin Schulz evidence executions Ferencz Final Report Final Solution folder Führerbefehl genocide German Gestapo Haensch Heinz Heydrich Himmler History Hitler Holocaust ibid ideology indicted Interrogation issue Jackson Jews Jost judge judgment July June justice killing Klingelhöfer Landsberg Landsberg prisoners leadership Letter mass murder McCloy Memorandum Musmanno NARA RG 238 NARA RG 466 National Socialist Naumann Nazi Nosske November Nuremberg trials OCCWC October Office OMGUS Otto Ohlendorf Otto Rasch Paul Blobel perpetrators political Prisons Division prosecution prosecutors role roll 11 RSHA Sandberger Schulz Seibert Sonderkommando Soviet Union SS Record Strauch Streckenbach Taylor Third Reich United USHMM war crimes war criminals