The Nuremberg Legacy in the New Millenium

Higgins, W

The Nuremberg Legacy in the New Millenium

Higgins, W

Permalink

Publisher:: UTS ePRESS
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Genocide Perspectives IV, 2012, 1, pp. 234 - 271
Issue Date:: 2012-01

Closed Access

	Filename	Description	Size
	2012000249OK.pdf	Published version	19.24 MB	Adobe PDF	View/Open

Copyright Clearance Process

Recently Added
In Progress
Closed Access

This item is closed access and not available.

Full metadata record

Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Higgins, W	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Colin Tatz	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Genocide Perspectives IV, 2012, 1, pp. 234 - 271	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9780987236975	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/31906
dc.description.abstract	The 19451946 trial of major German perpetrators before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg has often been called the greatest trial in history. More than the prominence the major protagonists, the principles at stake guaranteed its historical importance. For the very first time the entrenched principles of state sovereignty and raison détat came under challenge. In Nuremberg, state functionaries faced prosecution stripped of the impunity that had hitherto attached to state crimes. And they were forced to answer for actions that had hitherto self-evidently constituted prerogatives of a sovereign state, above all starting wars and massacring their own subjectsactions now declared so felonious as to attract the ultimate penalty. Nor were the orders of state functionaries any longer able to shield perpetrators from criminal liability.	en_US
dc.publisher	UTS ePRESS	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Genocide Perspectives IV	en_US
dc.title	The Nuremberg Legacy in the New Millenium	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.location	Australia	en_US
utslib.for	1606 Political Science	en_US
utslib.for	2103 Historical Studies	en_US
utslib.citation.edition	1	en_US
dc.location.activity	RMIT Melbourne
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.consider-herdc	true	en_US
pubs.edition	1	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Australia	en_US

Abstract:

The 19451946 trial of major German perpetrators before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg has often been called the greatest trial in history. More than the prominence the major protagonists, the principles at stake guaranteed its historical importance. For the very first time the entrenched principles of state sovereignty and raison détat came under challenge. In Nuremberg, state functionaries faced prosecution stripped of the impunity that had hitherto attached to state crimes. And they were forced to answer for actions that had hitherto self-evidently constituted prerogatives of a sovereign state, above all starting wars and massacring their own subjectsactions now declared so felonious as to attract the ultimate penalty. Nor were the orders of state functionaries any longer able to shield perpetrators from criminal liability.

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:

http://hdl.handle.net/10453/31906