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020    $a9780199669752$q(hbk.)
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050 _4 $aKZ1176.5$b.P75 2016
082 04 $a306.2094309043$223
100 1_ $aPriemel, Kim Christian,$d1977-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe betrayal :$bthe Nuremberg trials and German divergence /$cKim Christian Priemel.
250    $aFirst edition.
264 _1 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2016.
300    $axiv, 481 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336    $atext$2rdacontent
337    $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338    $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 8_ $aAt the end of World War II the Allies faced a threefold challenge: how to punish perpetrators of appalling crimes for which the categories of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' had to be coined; how to explain that these had been committed by Germany, of all nations; and how to reform Germans. The Allied answer to this conundrum was the application of historical reasoning to legal procedure. In the thirteen Nuremberg trials held between 1945 and 1949, and in corresponding cases elsewhere, a concerted effort was made to punish key perpetrators while at the same time providing a complex analysis of the Nazi state and German history. Building on a long debate about Germany's divergence from a presumed Western path of development, Allied prosecutors sketched a historical trajectory which had led Germany to betray the Western model. Historical reasoning both accounted for the moral breakdown of a 'civilised' nation and rendered plausible arguments that this had indeed been a collective failure rather than one of a small criminal clique. The prosecutors therefore carefully laid out how institutions such as private enterprise, academic science, the military, or bureaucracy, which looked ostensibly similar to their opposite numbers in the Allied nations, had been corrupted in Germany even before Hitler's rise to power. While the argument, depending on individual protagonists, subject matters, and contexts, met with uneven success in court, it offered a final twist which was of obvious appeal in the Cold War to come: if Germany had lost its way, it could still be brought back into the Western fold.
504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 425-468) and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction:$tDrawing lines --$tMapping the West : Nuremberg's sources --$tContructing Nuremberg --$tThe lunatic fringe, mostly --$tPaving the Sonderweg --$tSaving capitalism --$tTrying modernity or La Trahison des Clercs --$tEast by south-east : the military cases --$tReintegrating the other --$gConclusion.
650 _0 $aNuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.
650 _0 $aNuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
650 _0 $aWar crimes (International law)
650 _0 $aPolitical culture$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
651 _0 $aGermany$xHistory$y1933-1945$xHistoriography.
651 _0 $aGermany$xHistory$y1918-1933$xHistoriography.
650 _0 $aNational socialism$xSocial aspects.
650 _0 $aSociological jurisprudence$zGermany$xHistory.
650 _0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAtrocities.
611 27 $aNuremberg War Crime Trials (Germany : 1946-1949)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01709731
611 27 $aWorld War (1939-1945)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01180924
650 _7 $aAtrocities$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00820727
650 _7 $aHistoriography$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00958221
650 _7 $aNational socialism$xSocial aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01033778
650 _7 $aPolitical culture.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01069263
650 _7 $aSociological jurisprudence.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01123856
650 _7 $aWar crimes (International law)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01910323
651 _7 $aGermany.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01210272
651 _7 $aGermany$zNuremberg.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01207726
648 _7 $a1900-1999$2fast
655 _7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628

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