Defeating Impunity

Attempts at International Justice in Europe since 1914
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-261-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

Reihe: War and Genocide

Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of perpetrators of international crime perpetrators ever stood trial, and a central challenge of this era was the effort to ensure that not all these crimes remained unpunished. This required not only establishing a legal record but also courage, determination, and inventiveness in realizing justice. Defeating Impunity moves from the little-known trials of the 1920s to the Yugoslavia tribunal in the 2000s, from Belgium in 1914 to Ukraine in 1943, and to Stuttgart and Düsseldorf in 1975. It illustrates the extent to which the language of law drew an international horizon of justice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rovetta, Ornella

Lagrou, Pieter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Chronology

Introduction: Defeating Impunity in Twentieth Century Europe

Ornella Rovetta and Pieter Lagrou

Chapter 1. The Law of Military Occupation and the Belgian Trials after 1918

Thomas Graditzky

Chapter 2. The Claims of Belgian Deported Workers at the Paris Mixed Arbitral Tribunal in 1924

Arnaud Charon

Chapter 3. Coining Postwar Justice from the Margins: Exile Lawyers in London, 1941-1945

Kerstin von Lingen

Chapter 4. The Treasure Trove of the United Nations War Crimes Commission Archives, 1943-1949

Wolfgang Form

Chapter 5. Legal Imagination and Legal Realism: ‘Crimes against Humanity’ and the U.S. Racial Question in 1945

Guillaume Mouralis

Chapter 6. Filling the Legal Void: Jewish Victims, German Offenders and Belgian Judges, 1942-1951

Marie-Anne Weisers

Chapter 7. Soviet Footage of War Crimes, between Propaganda and Judicial Evidence, 1941–1946

Vanessa Voisin

Appendix 7.1: Translation of Excerpts of the Circular Sent to the Chiefs of Cinema Front Groups by the Director of Newsreel Production Fedor Vasilchenko, 8 September 1943

Appendix 7.2: Translation of Excerpts of the Circular Sent to the Chiefs of Cinema Front Groups by the Director of Newsreel Production Fedor Vasilchenko, 3 December 1943

Chapter 8. From Majdanek to Demjanjuk: Failures of Justice in Post-war Germany, 1958-2009

Rebecca Wittmann

Chapter 9. Force of Fact: Municipal Authorities, Victim Associations and Forensic Science at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

Isabelle Delpla

Chapter 10. International Law in Action: The Role of the Legal Advisor in Operations in the Twenty-First Century

Chris De Cock

Conclusion

Ornella Rovetta and Pieter Lagrou

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rovetta, Ornella
Ornella Rovetta is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in contemporary history at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Université Saint Louis. Her research interests include the history of international criminal justice and of Rwanda. She is the author of Un génocide au tribunal. Le Rwanda et la justice internationale and co-authored a radio documentary on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Lagrou, Pieter
Pieter Lagrou has taught contemporary history at the Université libre de Bruxelles since 2003. He has published on the legacy of the Second World War in Europe, on war crime trials and contemporary European historiography. He is currently working on the histories of popular sovereignty since 1789.

Ornella Rovetta is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in contemporary history at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Université Saint Louis. Her research interests include the history of international criminal justice and of Rwanda. She is the author of Un génocide au tribunal. Le Rwanda et la justice internationale and co-authored a radio documentary on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.