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By Kim Christian Priemel

ISBN-10: 019180102X

ISBN-13: 9780191801020

ISBN-10: 0199669759

ISBN-13: 9780199669752

Examines how the Allies got here to phrases with how a 'civilised' state like Germany may possibly perpetrate the crimes of WWII and sought to carry them again to the Western fold. Priemel exhibits that whereas many German associations, that have been ostensibly just like their Allied opposite numbers, were corrupted even prior to Hitler's upward thrust to power

summary: Examines how the Allies got here to phrases with how a 'civilised' state like Germany may possibly perpetrate the crimes of WWII and sought to carry them again to the Western fold. Priemel indicates that whereas many German associations, that have been ostensibly just like their Allied opposite numbers, were corrupted even ahead of Hitler's upward thrust to energy

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1946, 42 vols. , 1947–9) [henceforth: IMT]; see also Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, ed. Office of United States chief of counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 8 vols. and 2 suppl. (Washington: USGPO, 1946–8) [henceforth: NCA], and the London conference OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 17/08/16, SPi 22 The Betrayal proceedings have never been published in full. 85 There is probably no single person who has ever read all of these, and the present author, despite having seen a fair amount, lays claim to exhaustion but not to completeness.

5 Among the many excellent biographies see Angelica Goodden, Madame de Staël. The Dangerous Exile (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 125–51. Michel Winock, Madame de Staël (Paris: Fayard, 2010), 211–33, 369–92, defends his protagonist against charges of naïveté and points to her belief in Franco-German complementarity. 6 See Michael Pratt, ‘A Fallen Idol. The Impact of the Franco-Prussian War on the Perception of Germany by British Intellectuals’, International History Review, 7 (1985), 543–75, 543–5; Schwarz, Reise, 38f.

Clues to a Proper Understanding of the Nullum Crimen Principle in the Nuremberg Judgment’, Journal of International Criminal Justice, 9 (2011), 881–903. While I have relied mostly on the transcripts’ English version, I have tried to check the French and German protocols whenever stumbling over odd expressions, especially since the language most frequently used in court was German. A systematic cross-referencing, however, was beyond my capacity. All translations, both from archival and printed sources, are my own unless indicated otherwise.

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