Law, History, and Justice : Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century

Since the emergence of the modern international war law in the nineteenth century, views regarding state-organized violence has changed. Using political, legal and scientific debates concerning German (mass) violence, Annette Weinke investigates the changing nature of international humanitarian law and explores the entanglements between historical experience, historiography, and law and (moral) politics. The investigations in this volume enter uncharted territory by focusing on the effects of international criminal law and human rights violations during the First World War, the National Socialist mass crimes, the Holocaust, as well as the systematic wrongdoings of the GDR.