“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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Autor principal: Prusin, Alexander Victor (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2003
En: Holocaust and genocide studies
Año: 2003, Volumen: 17, Número: 1, Páginas: 1-30
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Sumario: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.
ISSN:1476-7937
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/hgs/17.1.1