“Fascist Criminals to the Gallows!”: The Holocaust and Soviet War Crimes Trials, December 1945–February 1946
While the Nuremberg trials are synonymous with the punishment of war criminals, until recently little was known about the Soviet Union's own concurrent war crimes tribunals. These proceedings have been under‐studied for two reasons: lack of access to Soviet archives, and the fact that the tribu...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Oxford University Press
2003
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Jahr: 2003, Band: 17, Heft: 1, Seiten: 1-30 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | While the Nuremberg trials are synonymous with the punishment of war criminals, until recently little was known about the Soviet Union's own concurrent war crimes tribunals. These proceedings have been under‐studied for two reasons: lack of access to Soviet archives, and the fact that the tribunals tended to function as political propaganda vehicles. Yet examination of the court documents yields valuable information about not only Soviet legal practice, but also the genocide of Jews in the German‐occupied Soviet territories. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/17.1.1 |