From 1573 to 1617, Master Franz Schmidt was the executioner for the towns of Bamberg and Nuremberg. During that span, he personally executed over 350 people which keeping a journal throughout his career. A Hangman's Diary is not only a collection of detailed writings by Schmidt …
From 1573 to 1617, Master Franz Schmidt was the executioner for the towns of Bamberg and Nuremberg. During that span, he personally executed over 350 people which keeping a journal throughout his career. A Hangman's Diary is not only a collection of detailed writings by Schmidt …
"A ... personal detective story, an uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the creation and development of world-changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler's Third Reich. East West Street looks at the personal and …
When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration …
Discusses the paradoxical use of positive law during the advent of the Nuremberg trials over sixty years ago, asserting that natural law should have been utilized instead.
"Vornehmste Stadt des Reichs" nannte Kaiser Karl IV. Nürnberg im Jahre 1366. Da hatte er die freie Reichsstadt längst zu seiner zweiten Residenz nach Prag, der Hauptstadt Böhmens, erkoren. Es war ihm gelungen, die städtischen Eliten in seine Pläne einzubinden und sich ihren wirt…
"Vornehmste Stadt des Reichs" nannte Kaiser Karl IV. Nürnberg im Jahre 1366. Da hatte er die freie Reichsstadt längst zu seiner zweiten Residenz nach Prag, der Hauptstadt Böhmens, erkoren. Es war ihm gelungen, die städtischen Eliten in seine Pläne einzubinden und sich ihren wirt…
This is an up-to-date, illustrated investigation into the notorious Nuremberg rallies and the part they played in the Nazi's quest to establish their vaunted 1000 year Third Reich.
This is an up-to-date, illustrated investigation into the notorious Nuremberg rallies and the part they played in the Nazis' quest to establish their vaunted 1000 year Third Reich.
This is an up-to-date, illustrated investigation into the notorious Nuremberg rallies and the part they played in the Nazis' quest to establish their vaunted 1000 year Third Reich.
"This book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of the twelve war-crimes trials held in the American zone of occupation between 1946 and 1949, collectively known as the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT). The judgments these Tribunals produced have played a critical r…
Less famous than the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal but no less important, the Nuremberg Military Tribunals tried lower-level functionaries and private citizens for their parts in WWII. This text gives a full overview of these trials and it traces the critical role th…
"This book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of the twelve war-crimes trials held in the American zone of occupation between 1946 and 1949, collectively known as the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT). The judgments these Tribunals produced have played a critical r…
