| Description |
x, 273 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prelude to justice -- Crimes of the spring -- Late afternoon news -- Wintersberger -- Witness to atrocity -- The state of Bavaria -- Rumors from the Würm Mill Woods -- The utility of atrocity -- Steinbrenner unleashed -- The Gumbel report -- Law and disorder -- A realm unto itself -- Evidence of evil -- Presidential powers -- Death sentence -- Good faith agreements -- Rules of law -- Epilogue : the Hartinger conviction -- Appendix : Hartinger's registers. |
| Summary |
The remarkable story of Josef Hartinger, the German prosecutor who risked everything to bring to justice the first killers of the Holocaust and whose efforts would play a key role in the Nuremberg tribunal. |
| Subject |
Hartinger, Josef, 1893-1984.
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Public prosecutors -- Germany -- Biography.
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Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946 -- Sources.
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Special prosecutors -- History.
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Governmental investigations -- History.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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National socialism -- Germany -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780385352918 |
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0385352913 |
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