"Human Rights after Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting" Topic
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| Tango01 | 07 Mar 2020 10:41 p.m. PST |
…Axis War Crimes. "Dan Plesch's admirable new study aims to bring attention to the significance of the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC, 1943–48) in facilitating the prosecution of war crimes across Europe and Asia after the Second World War. While the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal considered twenty-four individual cases of the most infamous Nazi war criminals in 1945–46 and then hosted twelve subsequent trials, the UNWCC supported national trials of some eight thousand cases, involving over thirty-six thousand individuals (46). Prosecutors in a coalition of seventeen countries submitted cases for review by the Commission, which then authorized them or not; it also notified concerned countries in order to enable them to assist each other in the arrest of charged individuals and their extradition to a relevant national court. During the second half of the war, the UNWCC gave "international legitimacy to local processes" (53) often led by governments-in-exile based in London, while working to establish important legal precedents and practices in the pursuit of justice against war crimes…"
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