{"id":22886,"date":"2020-10-01T17:04:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T17:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=22886"},"modified":"2020-10-01T17:04:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T17:04:32","slug":"annette-weinke-law-history-and-justice-debating-german-state-crimes-in-the-long-twentieth-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=22886","title":{"rendered":"Annette Weinke, \u201cLaw, History, and Justice: Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since the nineteenth century, the development of international humanitarian law has been marked by complex entanglements of legal theory, historical trauma, criminal prosecution, historiography, and politics. All of these factors have played a role in changing views on the applicability of international law and human-rights ideas to state-organized violence, which in turn have been largely driven by transnational responses to German state crimes. Here, Annette Weinke gives a groundbreaking long-term history of the political, legal and academic debates concerning German state and mass violence in the First World War, during the National Socialist era and the Holocaust, and under the GDR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annette Weinke<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor of History at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. She has previously been a visiting fellow at Princeton University\u2019s History Department. She is the co-editor of Toward a New Moral World Order?<\/em> (2013) and Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention<\/em> (2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abbreviations
Select Chronology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PART I: THE HAGUE \u2013 BERLIN \u2013 VERSAILLES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 1.<\/strong> International Criminal Law before World War I
Chapter 2.<\/strong> History Management in Wartime, 1914-1919
Chapter 3.<\/strong> Debating the Responsibility Clauses of the Peace Treaty
Chapter 4.<\/strong> The Heidelberg Association and Max Weber\u2019s \u201cWar Guilt\u201d Intervention
Chapter 5.<\/strong> Review I<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PART II: WASHINGTON \u2013 NUREMBERG \u2013 BONN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 6.<\/strong> International Law versus Human Rights?
Chapter 7.<\/strong> Jurists as Lobbyists and Historians
Chapter 8.<\/strong> The Frankfurt School Goes to War
Chapter 9.<\/strong> Hermann Jahrrei\u00df and the Nuremberg Defense Strategy
Chapter 10.<\/strong> West Germany Joins the Genocide Convention
Chapter 11.<\/strong> Review II<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PART III: BONN \u2013 LUDWIGSBURG \u2013 JERUSALEM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 12.<\/strong> Allied Law and the German Victims\u2019 Community
Chapter 13.<\/strong> West German Historians and the \u201cF\u00fchrer Order\u201d
Chapter 14.<\/strong> Eichmann, Arendt, and Justice
Chapter 15.<\/strong> Review III<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PART IV: SALZBURG \u2013 BONN AND BERLIN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 16.<\/strong> Samuel Huntington\u2019s Third Wave<\/em> and \u201cTransitology\u201d
Chapter 17.<\/strong> The \u201cPolitics of the Past\u201d after German Unification
Chapter 18.<\/strong> \u201cMercy Before Justice?\u201d The Amnesty Debate of 1994-95
Chapter 19.<\/strong> Review IV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes
Bibliography
Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated from the German by Nicholas Evangelos Levis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/WeinkeLaw\/loc<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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