Foreword by Michael R. Marrus
Introduction: War Crimes Trials and the Historian
Part I. Precedents in Punishment
The Lessons of Leipzig: Punishing German War Criminals after the First World War (Jurgen Matthaus)
Early Post-War Justice in the American Zone: The Hadamar Murder Factory Trial (Patricia Heberer)
US Army War Crimes Trials in Germany, 1945-1947 (Lisa Yavnai)
Part II. Allied Courts and German Crimes in the Context of Nuremberg
Law and Politics in the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, 1946-1949 (Jonathan Friedman)
The Nuremberg Doctors Trial and the Limitations of Context (Michael R. Marrus)
The Scars of Ravensbruck: Medical Experiments and British War Crimes Policy, 1945-1950 (Ulf Schmidt)The Sachsenhausen Trials: War Crimes Prosecution in the Soviet Occupation Zone and in West and East Germany (Jonathan Friedman)
Part III. Postwar Society and the Nazi Past
No Ordinary Criminal: Georg Heuser, Other Mass Murderers, and West German Justice (Jurgen Matthaus)
Tainted Law: The West German Judiciary and the Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals (Rebecca Wittmann)
Justice in Austrian Courts? The Case of Josef W. and Austrias Difficult Relationship with Its Past (Patricia Heberer)
Part IV. Current Aspects and Implications
Crimes against Humanity Trials in France and their Historical and Legal Contexts: A Retrospective Look (Richard J. Golsan)
Milestones and Mythologies: The Impact of Nuremberg (Donald Bloxham)
Prosecution, Condemnation, and Punishment: Ethical Implications of Atrocities on Trial (John K. Roth)
Bibliography
Contributors
Index