Opposing “Victors' Justice”: German Protestant Churchmen and Convicted War Criminals in Western Europe after 19451

This article analyzes the post-1945 intervention of German Protestant churchmen on behalf of those convicted war criminals who, for the most part, were still awaiting execution in French, Dutch, and Belgian prisons at the beginning of the 1950s.2 All of these men were eventually pardoned. The church...

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Main Author: Webster, Ronald (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2001
In: Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2001, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-69
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