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Prosecuting rape : the modern relevance of WW2 legal practice
Key issues faced in prosecuting SGBV today
Conclusion
A new paradigm for providing justice for international human rights violations
Legal and political amnesia
Creation of the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC)
Official resistance to prosecuting war crimes
Chinese and Indian leadership
A global system of complementary justice
The development of key international legal principles
Conclusion
When the Allies condemned the Holocaust
Early Allied condemnations of the Holocaust and Nazi atrocities
The declaration
Abandonment of the Jews nonetheless
Conclusion
Pursuing war criminals all over the world
A global achievement
Commission members and court structures
Conclusion
The Holocaust indictments : prosecuting the "footsoldiers of atrocity"
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
France
Greece
Luxembourg
The Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Yugoslavia
United Kingdom
United States
Conlusion
Fair trials and collective responsibility for criminal acts
The fundamentals of fair trials
"It wasn't illegal when the action was taken"
Hearsay
The rights of the accused
Command responsibility
Superior orders
Group responsibility
Conspiracy and common design
Reprisals and the execution of hostages
Securing the rights of the accused
Conclusion
Crimes against humanity : the "freedom to lynch," and the indictments of Adolf Hitler
Crimes against humanity
The crimes of aggression and genocide
Universal jurisdiction
Conclusion
Liberating the Nazis
Forgetting the Nazi past to build a West German future
Early protests against prisoner release
Hostility to the commission
Opposition to the commission's closure
Ongoing prosecution of war crimes
Prisoner release
Conclusion
The legacy unleashed
The peoples' human rights
The UNWCC as an international human rights agreement
Complementarity and the UNWCC
Toward a "UNWCC 2.0"?
Conclusion
Appendix A : Timeline of the Allies' principal political responses to Axis atrocities
Appendix B : A note on the UNWCC archives and related material
Appendix C : The role of the UNWCC in obtaining ICTY verdicts
Appendix D : An early UNWCC charge file against a group of Germans involved in the Treblinka Death Camp
Appendix E : An early Polish charge file against a group of Germans involved in the concentration camp system.
Key issues faced in prosecuting SGBV today
Conclusion
A new paradigm for providing justice for international human rights violations
Legal and political amnesia
Creation of the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC)
Official resistance to prosecuting war crimes
Chinese and Indian leadership
A global system of complementary justice
The development of key international legal principles
Conclusion
When the Allies condemned the Holocaust
Early Allied condemnations of the Holocaust and Nazi atrocities
The declaration
Abandonment of the Jews nonetheless
Conclusion
Pursuing war criminals all over the world
A global achievement
Commission members and court structures
Conclusion
The Holocaust indictments : prosecuting the "footsoldiers of atrocity"
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
France
Greece
Luxembourg
The Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Yugoslavia
United Kingdom
United States
Conlusion
Fair trials and collective responsibility for criminal acts
The fundamentals of fair trials
"It wasn't illegal when the action was taken"
Hearsay
The rights of the accused
Command responsibility
Superior orders
Group responsibility
Conspiracy and common design
Reprisals and the execution of hostages
Securing the rights of the accused
Conclusion
Crimes against humanity : the "freedom to lynch," and the indictments of Adolf Hitler
Crimes against humanity
The crimes of aggression and genocide
Universal jurisdiction
Conclusion
Liberating the Nazis
Forgetting the Nazi past to build a West German future
Early protests against prisoner release
Hostility to the commission
Opposition to the commission's closure
Ongoing prosecution of war crimes
Prisoner release
Conclusion
The legacy unleashed
The peoples' human rights
The UNWCC as an international human rights agreement
Complementarity and the UNWCC
Toward a "UNWCC 2.0"?
Conclusion
Appendix A : Timeline of the Allies' principal political responses to Axis atrocities
Appendix B : A note on the UNWCC archives and related material
Appendix C : The role of the UNWCC in obtaining ICTY verdicts
Appendix D : An early UNWCC charge file against a group of Germans involved in the Treblinka Death Camp
Appendix E : An early Polish charge file against a group of Germans involved in the concentration camp system.