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    Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg by Hirsch, Francine;

    A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 29 June 2020

    • ISBN 9780199377930
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages560 pages
    • Size 239x165x45 mm
    • Weight 953 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 30 b/w illustrations
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    Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg reveals the pivotal role the Soviet Union played in the Nuremberg Trials of 1945 and 1946.

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    Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War Two by the victorious Allies, the Nuremberg Trials were intended to hold the Nazis to account for their crimes ? and to restore a sense of justice to a world devastated by violence. As Francine Hirsch reveals in this immersive, gripping, and ground-breaking book, a major piece of the Nuremberg story has routinely been omitted from standard accounts: the part the Soviet Union played in making the trials happen in the first place.

    Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg offers the first complete picture of the International Military Tribunal (IMT), including the many ironies brought to bear as the Soviets took their place among the countries of the prosecution in late 1945. Everyone knew that Stalin had allied with Hitler before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact hung heavy over the courtroom, as did the suspicion that the Soviets had falsified evidence in an attempt to pin one of their own war crimes, the mass killing of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest, on the Nazis. Moreover, key members of the Soviet delegation, including the Soviet judge and chief prosecutor, had played critical roles in Stalin's infamous show trials of the 1930s. For the American prosecutor Robert H. Jackson and his colleagues in the British and French delegations, Soviet participation in the IMT undermined the credibility of the trials and indeed the moral righteousness of the Allied victory.

    Yet without the Soviets Nuremberg would never have taken place. Soviet jurists conceived of the legal framework that treated war as an international crime, giving the trials a legal basis. The Soviets had borne the brunt of the fighting against Germany, and their almost unimaginable suffering gave them moral authority. They would not be denied a place on the tribunal and moreover were determined to make the most of it. However, little went as the Soviets had planned. Stalin's efforts to steer the trials from afar backfired. Soviet war crimes were exposed in open court. As relations among the four countries of the prosecution foundered, Nuremberg turned from a court of justice to an early front of the Cold War.

    Hirsch's book provides a front-row seat in the Nuremberg courtroom, while also guiding readers behind the scenes to the meetings in which secrets were shared, strategies mapped, and alliances forged. Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg offers a startlingly new view of the IMT and a fresh perspective on the movement for international human rights that it helped launch.

    Hirsch's monograph will be a major point of reference in subsequent research on the subject. Her book is a great scholarly achievement, a must-read for specialists in international law and historians of Russia and the Cold War, as well as for a wider audience of history buffs.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction: The Untold Story
    Part I: The Road to Nuremberg
    Chapter One: When War Became a Crime
    Chapter Two: But What Is Justice?
    Chapter Three: Countdown to Indictment
    Chapter Four: Ready or Not
    Part II: The Prosecution's Case
    Chapter Five: The Trial Begins
    Chapter Six: Stuck on the Sidelines
    Chapter Seven: Course Corrections
    Chapter Eight: Bearing Witness
    Part III: The Defense Case
    Chapter Nine: The Cold War Comes to Nuremberg
    Chapter Ten: In the Name of a Fair Trial
    Chapter Eleven: Accusations and Counter-Accusations
    Chapter Twelve: The Katyn Showdown
    Part IV: Last Words and Judgments
    Chapter Thirteen: Collective Guilt and the Fate of Postwar Europe
    Chapter Fourteen: Judgment
    Chapter Fifteen: Beyond Nuremberg
    Acknowledgements
    Endnotes
    Research Note
    Notes and Sources
    Bibliographical Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading
    Index

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