Nazi War Crimes, US Intelligence and Selective Prosecution at Nuremberg
Controversies Regarding the Role of the Office of Strategic Services
Price: $61.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-1-904385-80-6
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge-Cavendish
- Publication Date: 24th May 2007
- Pages: 480
About the Book
Reviewing recently declassified CIA documents, this book provides a balanced but critical discussion of the contribution of American intelligence officials to the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
Giving new details of how senior Nazi war criminals, such as SS General Karl Wolff, were provided with effective immunity deals, partly as a reward for their wartime cooperation with US intelligence officials, including Allen Dulles, former CIA Director, the author also discusses the role of such officials in mobilizing the unique resources of a modern intelligence agency to provide important trial testimony and vital documentary evidence.
Nazi War Crimes, US Intelligence and Selective Prosecution at Nuremberg argues that both war crimes prosecutors and intelligence officials can engage in mutually beneficial collaborations, but that both sides need to recognize and appreciate the problems that may arise from the fact that these institutions are required to operate according to different, and in some cases contradictory, agendas.
This topical book gives those studying, or with interests in, international law, criminal law and history an insight into the debates surrounding international war crimes, within the context of the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
Reviews
"Michael Salter's contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of intelligence operations and war crimes cannot be underestimated." - David Fraser, Journal of Law and Society, vol. 32 no. 2 (June 2008)Table of Contents
1. Introducing the Rationale, Aims and Methodology 2. Evidence of the War Criminality of the Wolff Group 3. The Geo-political Context of the Peace Negotiations Surrounding OSS' Operation Sunrise 4. Intervening on Behalf of Karl Wolff 5. Protecting the Wider Sunrise Group: Zimmer, Dollmann and Wenner 6. The Contribution of OSS Officials to the Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes 7. Gathering and Analysing the Materials that Became the R-Series of Nuremberg Trial Evidence 8. General Donovan's Contribution to the Nuremberg Trials. Summation: Taking Stock