Crimes of War

by Bartov, Omer

• ISBN13: 9781565848146
• ISBN10: 1565848144
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

A controversial look at wartime atrocities, by a group of distinguished historians. Including original contributions from distinguished European and American historians such as Saul FriedlA"nder, Omer Bartov, John Dower, Christopher Browning, and Marilyn Young, Crimes of War surveys wartime atrocities committed by the United States, Germany, and Japan across the twentieth century. Available now for the first time in paperback, the book presents startling new evidence of the killing of unarmed Koreans by American troops at No Gun Ri, of atrocities committed by Nazi soldiers on the Russian front, and of Japanese barbarity in China during World War II. Emerging from these accounts is a distinctive, repeated pattern, which typically includes a half-century of denial before the truth is confronted.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
War and War Crimes: A Brief History	p. 1
On War Crimes	p. 8
The Wehrmacht, German Society, and the Knowledge of the Mass Extermination of the Jews	p. 17
The Wehrmacht in Serbia Revisited	p. 31
The Wehrmacht Exhibition Controversy: The Politics of Evidence	p. 41
Zloczow, July 1941: The Wehrmacht and the Beginning of the Holocaust in Galicia: From a Criticism of Photographs to a Revision of the Past	p. 61
Nazi Photographs in Post-Holocaust Art: Gender as an Idiom of Memorialization	p. 100
"During Total War, We Girls Want to Be Where We Can Really Accomplish Something": What Women Do in Wartime	p. 121
Between Amnesty and Anti-Communism: The West German Kameradenschinder Trials, 1948-1960	p. 138
"In a Thousand Years, Every German Will Speak of This Battle": Celluloid Memories of Stalingrad	p. 161
When Memory Counts: War, Genocide, and Postwar Soviet Jewry	p. 191
"An Aptitude for Being Unloved": War and Memory in Japan	p. 217
An Incident at No Gun Ri	p. 242
Notes	p. 259
About the Authors	p. 325
Index	p. 329
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