@article{10.4159/harvard.9780674063129,
      recid = {1399561},
      author = {Jardim, Tomaz,},
      title = {The Mauthausen trial American military justice in Germany  / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Harvard University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      number = {10.4159/harvard.9780674063129},
      pages = {1 online resource (276 p.), [14] pages of plates.},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"Shortly after 9:00 a.m. on May 27, 1947, the first of  forty-nine men condemned to death for war crimes at  Mauthausen concentration camp mounted the gallows at  Landsberg prison near Munich. The mass execution that  followed resulted from an American military trial conducted  at Dachau in the spring of 1946 - a trial that lasted only  thirty-six days and yet produced more death sentences than  any other in American history.   The Mauthausen trial was  part of a massive series of proceedings designed to judge  and punish Nazi war criminals in the most expedient manner  the law would allow. There was no doubt that the crimes had  been monstrous. Yet despite meting out punishment to a  group of incontestably guilty men, the Mauthausen trial  reveals a troubling and seldom-recognized face of American  postwar justice - one characterized by rapid proceedings,  lax rules of evidence, and questionable interrogations.   Although the better-known Nuremberg trials are often  regarded as epitomizing American judicial ideals, these  trials were in fact the exception to the rule. Instead, as  Tomaz Jardim convincingly demonstrates, the rough justice  of the Mauthausen trial remains indicative of the most  common - and yet least understood - American approach to  war crimes prosecution. The Mauthausen Trial forces  reflection on the implications of compromising legal  standards in order to guarantee that guilty people do not  walk free."--Pub. desc.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1399561},
}