@article{1479042,
      recid = {1479042},
      author = {Jardim, Tomaz, },
      title = {The Mauthausen Trial : American Military Justice in  Germany /},
      pages = {1 online resource (304 p.) :},
      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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479042},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674063129},
}