Law, History, and Justice

Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78920-105-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Since the nineteenth century, the development of international humanitarian law has been marked by complex entanglements of legal theory, historical trauma, criminal prosecution, historiography, and politics. All of these factors have played a role in changing views on the applicability of international law and human-rights ideas to state-organized violence, which in turn have been largely driven by transnational responses to German state crimes. Here, Annette Weinke gives a groundbreaking long-term history of the political, legal and academic debates concerning German state and mass violence in the First World War, during the National Socialist era and the Holocaust, and under the GDR.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weinke, Annette

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Abbreviations

Select Chronology

PART I: THE HAGUE – BERLIN – VERSAILLES

Chapter 1. International Criminal Law before World War I

Chapter 2. History Management in Wartime, 1914-1919

Chapter 3. Debating the Responsibility Clauses of the Peace Treaty

Chapter 4. The Heidelberg Association and Max Weber’s “War Guilt” Intervention

Chapter 5. Review I

PART II: WASHINGTON – NUREMBERG – BONN

Chapter 6. International Law versus Human Rights?

Chapter 7. Jurists as Lobbyists and Historians

Chapter 8. The Frankfurt School Goes to War

Chapter 9. Hermann Jahrreiß and the Nuremberg Defense Strategy

Chapter 10. West Germany Joins the Genocide Convention

Chapter 11. Review II

PART III: BONN – LUDWIGSBURG – JERUSALEM

Chapter 12. Allied Law and the German Victims’ Community

Chapter 13. West German Historians and the “Führer Order”

Chapter 14. Eichmann, Arendt, and Justice

Chapter 15. Review III

PART IV: SALZBURG – BONN AND BERLIN

Chapter 16. Samuel Huntington’s Third Wave and “Transitology”

Chapter 17. The “Politics of the Past” after German Unification

Chapter 18. “Mercy Before Justice?” The Amnesty Debate of 1994-95

Chapter 19. Review IV

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Weinke, Annette
Annette Weinke is an Assistant Professor of History at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. She has previously been a visiting fellow at Princeton University’s History Department. She is the co-editor of Toward a New Moral World Order? (2013) and Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention (2017).

Annette Weinke is an Assistant Professor of History at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. She has previously been a visiting fellow at Princeton University’s History Department. She is the co-editor of Toward a New Moral World Order? (2013) and Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention (2017).