In the shadow of the Holocaust : Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the search for justice
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In the shadow of the Holocaust : Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the search for justice
Cambridge University Press, 2022
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-302) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In the midst of the Second World War, the Allies acknowledged Germany's ongoing programme of extermination. In the Shadow of the Holocaust examines the struggle to attain post-war justice and prosecution. Focusing on Poland's engagement with the United Nations War Crimes Commission, it analyses the different ways that the Polish Government in Exile (based in London from 1940) agitated for an Allied response to German atrocities. Michael Fleming shows that jurists associated with the Government in Exile made significant contributions to legal debates on war crimes and, along with others, paid attention to German crimes against Jews. By exploring the relationship between the UNWCC and the Polish War Crimes Office under the authority of the Polish Government in Exile and later, from the summer of 1945, the Polish Government in Warsaw, Fleming provides a new lens through which to examine the early stages of the Cold War.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Invasion and occupation: (officially) informing the world
- 2. Seeking a response: Polish diplomacy (sensu stricto)
- 3. Polish soft diplomacy: attempts to shape the discursive environment
- 4. War crimes and the path towards the UNWCC
- 5. The UNWCC, law and inter-allied politics
- 6. The Polish Government in Exile's war crimes office
- 7. Pursuing justice across the Iron Curtain
- 8. Poland, the UNWCC and the Cold War
- Conclusion.
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