Humanitarians at War: The Red Cross in the Shadow of the HolocaustGerald Steinacher
Scholarship on the history of the insular, yet global International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has exploded in recent decades, spurred by the forced opening of its archives in the 1980s. Public scrutiny of this supposedly impartial, apolitical humanitarian organization had reached a fever-pit...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 489-491 |
| Review of: | Humanitarians at war (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017) (Crossland, James)
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| Summary: | Scholarship on the history of the insular, yet global International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has exploded in recent decades, spurred by the forced opening of its archives in the 1980s. Public scrutiny of this supposedly impartial, apolitical humanitarian organization had reached a fever-pitch in the wake of a wave of revelations regarding its indifference and inaction during the most notorious twentieth-century human tragedy. Under public pressure, the ICRC opened its archives fully for the first time, and in so doing presented the possibility of a new era of transparency in regards to the deeds of humanitarian actors. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcy043 |