German citizens see the consequences of war crimes

In the West German town of Burgsteinfurt, the British army forced the 4000 inhabitants to watch the film Atrocities: The Evidence. It contained footage from the ...

German civilians forced to view atrocities committed in Buchenwald

The American liberating troops had a policy of forcing German civilians to view the atrocities committed in the camps.

German collaboration and complicity - The Holocaust Explained

This myth was relatively popular in Germany until an exhibition appeared in Hamburg in 1995 entitled War of Annihilation: Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941 to 1944.

German Reactions to Nazi Atrocities - jstor

Early in the re-education of the German people the military government attempted to develop a sense of ... the inevitable consequences of war; and, of.

The Nuremberg Trial and its Legacy | New Orleans

The first international war crimes tribunal in history revealed the true extent of German atrocities and held some of the most prominent Nazis accountable for ...

The Reconstruction of Justice in Post-Nazi Western Germany

Denazification and War Crimes Trials ... At the heart of the post-Potsdam occupation was the denazification of German public life. To show the ...

Germany's Pursuit of International Criminal Justice through ...

Prior to the VStGB coming into effect, German criminal law did not recognize international crimes except for genocide, as stipulated in former ...

The German Military and the Holocaust

Following the outbreak of war, the Nazi regime stiffened up policies, laws, and penalties for civilians and military personnel accused of undermining morale, ...

German war crimes - Wikipedia

The most notable of these is the Holocaust, in which millions of European Jewish, Polish, and Romani people were systematically abused, deported, and murdered.

The Long Arm of Justice: Lessons from Specialized War Crimes ...

[13] Courts may hear cases intermittently, as in Germany and the Netherlands, or continuously, as in France, meaning that trials can range ...

Trials of SS men from the Auschwitz Concentration Camp garrison ...

From 1946 to 1949, about 1 thousand people suspected of committing war crimes at Auschwitz were extradited to Poland, mostly from the American occupation zone ...

Postwar trials and denazification - The Holocaust Explained

The Subsequent Nuremberg Trials tried major war criminals, but of lower ranks than those tried in the first trial. Each of the twelve trials involved defendants ...

World-renowned Holocaust historian explains how ordinary people ...

World-renowned Holocaust historian explains how ordinary people can commit such atrocities ... Nazi Germany's Reserve Police Battalion 101 ...

Judgment : War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity - Avalon Project

After these civilians arrived in Germany, no word of them was permitted to reach the country from which they came, or their relatives; even in cases when they ...

Short History of Prosecuting Crimes under International Law in ...

As we can see, the cornerstones for the practice of German international criminal law were laid in this build-up phase: The aim of investigation ...

The Nuremberg Laws | National Archives

... Nazi leaders were put on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. ... The Reich Citizen Law stripped German Jews of their German ...

Prosecuting the war criminals of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan

Thousands of additional trials, administered as military war crimes tribunals, tried many more defendants. It was in these courts that the men ...

Germans Who Refused to Execute Civilians during World War II - jstor

Russian prisoners of war, various postwar German war crimes trials, and ... The most serious consequence was that of Hornig (see Case VII above) who was ...

Germany - United States Department of State

Germany has taken commendable steps to confront its role as the perpetrator of the Holocaust and to ensure that Holocaust victims and their heirs receive ...

The Judiciary and Nazi Crimes in Postwar Germany

50 But public opinion alone does not explain the lack of severity. The development of German law itself has also influenced patterns of convictions and ...