03301cam a2200385 i 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020003700069040002200106041000800128042000800136050002600144082001600170100002000186245009600206264005900302300004400361336002100405337002500426338002300451504005100474505052200525520125201047610005102299610007202350650004502422650003902467650006202506650003802568650004702606650005102653650005402704776015702758BJBSDDR20230410142417.0ta160715s2017    dcua     b    001 0 eng    a9781626164314 (hbk : alk. paper)  aDGU/DLCbengcDGU  aspa  apcc00aKZ 1174.5bP726h 201700a341.6/92231 aPlesch, Daniel 10aHuman rights after Hitler :bthe lost history of prosecuting Axis war crimes /cDan Plesch. 1aWashington, DC :bGeorgetown University Press,c[2017]  axx, 251 pages :billustrations ;c24 cm  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aProsecuting rape : the modern relevance of World War II legal practices -- A new paradigm for providing justice for international human rights violations -- When the allies condemned the Holocaust -- Pursuing war criminals all over the world -- The Holocaust indictments : prosecuting the "foot soldiers of atrocity" -- Fair trials and collective responsibility for criminal acts -- Crimes against humanity : the "freedom to lynch," and the indictments of Adolf Hitler -- Liberating the Nazis -- The legacy unleashed.  aHuman Rights after Hitler is a groundbreaking history about the forgotten work of the UN War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), which operated during and after World War II in response to Axis atrocities. He explains the commission's work, why its files were kept secret, and demonstrates how the lost precedents of the commission's indictments should introduce important new paradigms for prosecuting war crimes today. The UNWCC examined roughly 36,000 cases in Europe and Asia. Thousands of trials were carried out at the country-level, and hundreds of war criminals were convicted. This rewrites the history of human rights in the wake of World War II, which is too focused on the few trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo. Until a protracted lobbying effort by Plesch and colleagues, the UNWCC's files had been kept out of public view in the UN archives under pressure from the US government. The US initially wanted the files closed to smooth the way for post-war collaboration with Germany and Japan, and the few researchers who did gain permission to see the files were not permitted to even take notes until the files' recent release. Now revealed, the precedents set by these cases should have enormous practical utility for prosecuting war crimes today.20aUnited Nations War Crimes CommissionxHistory.24aComisión de Crímenes de Guerra de las Naciones UnidasxHistoria 0aWar crime trialsxHistoryy20th century.40aProcesos por crímenes de guerra. 0aCrímenes de guerra xProcesos zNuremberg, y1945-1946. 0aWorld War, 1939-1945xAtrocities. 0aGuerra Mundial II, 1939-1945 xAtrocidades 0aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)xHistoriography.00aHolocausto judío (1939-1945)xHistoriografía.08iOnline version:aPlesch, Daniel, author.tHuman rights after HitlerdWashington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2017z9781626164338w(DLC) 2016040144