The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945–1958

Atrocity, Law, and History

Hilary Earl author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:27th Apr '09

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This book offers a historical examination of the arrest, trial and punishment of the leaders of the SS-Einsatzgruppen.

Based on extensive archival research, this book offers a historical examination of the arrest, trial and punishment of the leaders of the SS-Einsatzgruppen - the mobile security and killing units employed by the Nazis in their racial war on the Eastern front.Based on extensive archival research, this book offers a historical examination of the arrest, trial and punishment of the leaders of the SS-Einsatzgruppen - the mobile security and killing units employed by the Nazis in their racial war on the Eastern front. Sent to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, four units of the Einsatzgruppen, along with reinforcements, murdered approximately 1 million Soviet civilians in open air shootings and in gas vans and, in 1947, twenty-four leaders of these units were indicted for crimes against humanity and war crimes for their part in the murders. In addition to describing the legal proceedings that held these men accountable, this book also examines historiographical trends and perpetrator paradigms and expounds on such contested issues as the timing and genesis of the Final Solution, the perpetrators' route to crime and their motivation for killing, as well as discussing the tensions between law and history.

Review of the hardback: '… illuminating … Earl has undertaken original and extensive archival research and safely takes her place with other major scholars working on Nazism's historical and legal legacy. … convincing and … devastating.' Edinburgh Law Review
'Earl's conclusions augment the … scholarly examinations of the necessary but imperfect judicial reckoning with |Nazism.' The Journal of Central European History

  • Winner of Hans Rosenberg Book Prize from the Conference Group for Central European History 2010

ISBN: 9780521456081

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm

Weight: 690g

354 pages