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• Title:Hitler's generals on trial : the last war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg / Valerie Geneviève Hébert.
  
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• Author/Creator:Hébert, Valerie, 1974-
  
• Published/Created:Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ©2010.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KZ1179.H54 H43 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Leeb, Wilhelm, Ritter von, 1876-1956--Trials, litigation, etc.
  Germany. Oberkommando der Wehrmacht--Trials, litigation, etc.
  High Command Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, 1948-1949.
  Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
  Command of troops--Germany--History--20th century.
  
• Genre/Form:Trial and arbitral proceedings.
  
• Description:xii, 362 pages : ill ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Modern war studies.
  
• Summary:"By prosecuting war crimes, the Nuremberg trials sought to educate West Germans about their criminal past, provoke their total rejection of Nazism, and convert them to democracy. More than all of the other Nuremberg proceedings, the High Command case against fourteen of Hitler's generals embraced these goals, since the charges -- the murder of POWs, the terrorizing civilians, the extermination of Jews -- also implicated the 20 million ordinary Germans who had served in the military. This trial was the true test of Nuremberg's potential to inspire national reflection on Nazi crime ... H?bert's study ... draws extensively on the voluminous trial records to reconstruct these proceedings in full ... Crucially, she also examines the West German reaction to the trial and the intense debate over its fairness and legitimacy, ignited by the sentencing of soldiers who were seen by the public as having honorably defended their country"--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780700616985 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0700616985 (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:From war crimes to war crimes trials : the evolution of American judicial policy, 1942 to 1948
  The response to the trials : attacks on all sides, 1946 to 1949
  Prosecuting Hitler's high command : U.S. v. Wilhelm von Leeb et al.
  The soldiers' defense
  Presiding Judge John Carlton Young and the high command case judgment
  The debate over imprisoned soldiers and the politics of punishment, 1949 to 1952
  Setting the war criminals free : the interim and mixed clemency and parole boards, 1953 to 1958
  Conclusion
  Appendix 1: The high command case
  Appendix 2: German Army field formations and basic command structure
  Appendix 3: Wartime positions of the high command case field commanders
  Appendix 4: The high command case defendants' sentence expiration and parole and clemency release dates.