Suchergebnisse

Die Frage, wie die deutschen Ministerien und Behörden in der Nachkriegszeit mit der NS-Vergangenheit umgegangen sind, ist in jüngster Zeit ein vieldiskutiertes Thema. Dies gilt für die personellen und institutionellen Kontinuitäten und Brüche ebenso wie für die inhaltlichen Aspekte der Politik. Zahlreiche Ministerien und Behörden haben dazu Kommissionen eingesetzt, um die eigene Geschichte von unabhängigen Wissenschaftlern erforschen zu lassen. Dies gilt auch für das Bundesministerium der Justiz. Die Beiträge in diesem Band zeichnen den Weg von der NS-Justiz zur Justiz in der Nachkriegszeit nach und untersuchen dabei insbesondere die Entwicklung in der Rosenburg, dem ersten Dienstsitz des Bundesjustizministeriums im Bonner Ortsteil Kessenich von 1950 bis 1973. Angesprochen werden nicht nur Fragen, die den Personenkreis im BMJ betreffen - etwa die Kriterien und Maßstäbe bei Einstellung und Beförderungen, sondern auch zentrale Themen der Rechtspolitik: die Verfassungsentwicklung nach 1948/49, die Gesetzgebung vom Dritten Reich zur Bundesrepublik, die strafrechtliche Aufarbeitung der Justizverbrechen in der Nachkriegszeit, die Anfänge der Abteilung Strafrecht im BMJ sowie Entwicklungen im Gesellschafts- und Familienrecht.

In international law victims' issues have gained more and more attention over the last decades. In particular in transitional justice processes the victim is being given high priority. It is to be seen in this context that the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court foresees a rather excessive victim participation concept in criminal prosecution. In this volume issue is taken at first with the definition of victims, and secondly with the role of the victim as a witness and as a participant. Several chapters address this matter with a view to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) and the Trial against Demjanjuk in Germany. In a third part the interests of the victims outside the criminal trial are being discussed. In the final part the role of civil society actors are being tackled. This volume thus gives an overview of the role of victims in transitional justice processes from an interdisciplinary angle, combining academic research and practical experience.

The American perspective on Nuremberg: a case of cascading ironies /Raymond M. Brown --The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg: British perspectives /David Cesarani --The French perspective /Hervé Ascensio --The role of the Soviet Union in the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg /Michael J. Bazyler --The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg from a German perspective /Albin Eser --A Jewish lobby at Nuremberg: Jacob Robinson and the Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1945-46 /Michael R. Marrus --Genocide on trial: law and collective memory /Donald Bloxham --The Role and rights of victims at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal /Sam Garkawe --History and memory in the courtroom: reflections on perpetrator trials /Lawrence Douglas --Tyranny on trial -- trial of major German war criminals at Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946 /Whitney R. Harris -- Confronting "crimes against humanity", from Leipzig to the Nuremberg Trials /Herbert R. Reginbogin --In retrospect: Nazi Party, the rallies, the racial laws /Klaus Kastner --"One good man": the Jacksonian shape of Nuremberg /John Q. Barrett --The Nuremberg Trials and American jurisprudence: the decline of legal realism and the revival of natural law /Rodger D. Citron --The Einsatzgruppen Trial /Benjamin Ferencz --The Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg /Louise Harmon --The Jurists' trial and lessons for the rule of law /Harry Reicher --The Role of German industry: from individual criminal responsibility of some to a broadly shared responsibility for compensatory payments /Roland Bank --Military justice: war crimes trials in the American Zone of occupation in Germany, 1945-1947 /Lisa Yavnai --Between law and politics: the prosecution of NS-criminals in the two German states after 1945 /Hinrich Rüping --The Normalization of Nazi crime in postwar West German trials /Rebecca Wittmann --Genocide (Holocaust) trials in Israel /Gabriel Bach --A Summary of the history of Nazi war crime trials in Australia /Greg James --Germany and international criminal law: continuity or change? /Claus Kress --The International Criminal Court: key features and current challenges /Hans-Peter Kaul --The Legacy of Nuremberg /Anne Bayefsky --Nuremberg, justice and the beast of impunity /Wanda M. Akin --The Judicial legacy of Nuremberg -- the statute of the International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg and the International Criminal Court /Andreas Zimmermann --Enforcement of Nuremberg norms: the role for mechanisms other than the ICC /Dan Derby --War reparations, the Holocaust, and the ICC /Roger P. Alford --The plot to kill Hitler: July 20, 1944 and the story of the German resistance movement /Winfried Heinemann --Totalitarian regimes: a comparative analysis of national socialism and the German Democratic Republic /Joachim Gauck --Liberating perspectives /Robert Wolfson.