Human Rights after Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes

Dan Plesch, Benjamin B. Ferencz (Foreword by)

$34.95

Publication Date: April 20th, 2017

Publisher:

Georgetown University Press

ISBN:

9781626164314

Pages:

271

Description

Human Rights after Hitler reveals thousands of forgotten US and Allied war crimes prosecutions against Hitler and other Axis war criminals based on a popular movement for justice that stretched from Poland to the Pacific. These cases provide a great foundation for twenty-first-century human rights.

About the Author

Dan Plesch is director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of America, Hitler and the UN, coeditor of Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations, and has been a frequent contributor to the Guardian and other media.