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Seeking Justice for the Holocaust - Herbert C. Pell, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Limits of International Law (Paperback)
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Seeking Justice for the Holocaust - Herbert C. Pell, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Limits of International Law (Paperback)
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The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial has become a symbol of justice, the
pivotal moment when the civilized world stood up for Europe's Jews
and, ultimately, for human rights. Yet the world, represented at
the time by the Allied powers, almost did not stand up despite the
magnitude of the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis. Seeking justice
for the Holocaust had not been an automatic-or an obvious-mission
for the Allies to pursue. In this book, Graham Cox recounts the
remarkable negotiations and calculations that brought the United
States and its allies to this point. At the center of this story is
the collaboration between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert C.
Pell, Roosevelt's appointee as U.S. representative to the United
Nations War Crimes Commission, in creating an international legal
protocol to prosecute Nazi officials for war crimes and genocide.
Pell emerges here as an unheralded force in pursuing justice and in
framing human rights as an international concern. The book also
enlarges our perspective on Roosevelt's policies regarding European
Jews by revealing the depth of his commitment to postwar justice in
the face of staunch opposition, even from some within his
administration. What made the international effort especially
contentious was a debate over its focus-how to punish for
aggressive warfare and crimes against humanity. Cox exposes the
internal contradictions and contortions behind the U.S. position
and the maneuverings of numerous officials negotiating the legal
parameters of the trials. Most telling perhaps were the efforts of
Robert H. Jackson, the chief U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg, to
circumscribe the scope of new international law-for fear of setting
precedents that might boomerang on the United States because of its
own racial segregation practices. With its broad new examination of
the background and context of the Nuremberg trials, and its
expanded view of the roles played by Roosevelt and his unlikely
deputy Pell, Seeking Justice for the Holocaust offers a deeper and
more nuanced understanding of how the Allies came to hold Nazis
accountable for their crimes against humanity.
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