Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory Book

	Acronyms and Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The Legal Prism
1	Shaping the Trials: The Politics of Trial Policy, 1945-1949	17
1.1	The Theory behind the IMT Prosecution	17
1.2	The IMT Defendants: Individuals and Organizations	21
1.3	The Prospect of a Second International Trial	24
1.4	The Political Context of the Occupation of Germany	25
1.5	'The Trial that Never Was': The Aborted Second Trial of Major War Criminals	28
1.6	Unequal Progressions: The Courses of British and American Trial Policy from 1946	32
1.7	The Development of the OCCWC	37
1.8	The OCCWC and the Foreign Office (i): The Industrialists	38
1.9	The OCCWC and the Foreign Office (ii): The Military	41
1.10	British Domestic Opposition to the Trials	47
1.11	The Politics of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings	49
2	Race-Specific Crimes in Punishment and Re-Education Policy: The 'Jewish Factor'	57
2.1	The Search for Evidence	58
2.2	Deploying the Evidence: 'Hard Documents' and 'Representative Examples'	60
2.3	Applying 'War Crimes' and 'Crimes against Humanity'	63
2.4	The 'Conspiracy' to Initiate War: The Tyranny of a Construct	69
2.5	The 'Jewish Factor' in the Royal Warrant Trials	75
2.6	Occupation Policy, Victim Specificity and Symbols of Suffering	80
Pt. II	Post-War Representations and Perceptions
3	The Limits of the Legal Imagination: Plumbing the Depths of Nazi Criminality	93
3.1	The Dachau Trial	95
3.2	The 'Belsen' Trial	97
3.3	The IMT Trial and the Camp System	101
3.4	The Significance of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka	109
3.5	The Absence of Aktion Reinhard (i): An Expropriation Exercise?	110
3.6	The Absence of Aktion Reinhard (ii): By-Passing the Camps	116
4	The Failure of the Trial Medium: Charting the Breadth of Nazi Criminality	129
4.1	Genocide in the Consciousness of the Postwar World: An Overview	133
4.2	An Education in German Guilt	137
4.3	West German Responses to the IMT Trial	145
4.4	Towards the 'Final Solution of the War Criminals Question'	149
4.5	The Bystanders Judge Nuremberg	153
4.6	British and American 'Revisionism'	156
4.7	Negating Allied Punishment Policy: Premature Releases and Political Expediency	162
4.8	The Revised Rhetoric of the Wehrmacht's War	172
Pt. III	The Trials and Posterity
5	A Nuremberg Historiography of the Holocaust?	185
5.1	Legal Omissions (i): The SS and Police	186
5.2	Legal Omissions (ii): The 'Ostland' Criminals	196
5.3	The Nuremberg Legacy (i): Motivation from the Nazi Elite to the Executioners	200
5.4	The Nuremberg Legacy (ii): 'Extermination through Work'	208
	Conclusions	221
App. A	Charter of the International Military Tribunal, article 6	229
App. B	The defendants and organizations before the IMT	229
App. C	The subsequent Nuremberg proceedings	231
	Bibliography	233
	Index	263