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Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an American Prosecutor
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ISBN13: 9781634256650
Publisher: Amer Bar Assn
Published: Apr 1 2017
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The world remembers Nuremberg, where a handful of Nazi policymakers were brought to justice, but nearly forgotten are the proceedings at Dachau, where hundreds of Nazi guards, officers, and doctors stood trial for personally taking part in the torture and execution of prisoners inside Dachau, Mauthausen, Flossenburg, and Buchenwald concentration camps. In Justice at Dachau, Joshua M. Greene, maker of the award winning documentary 'Witness: Voices from the Holocaust, ' recreates the Dachau trials and reveals the dramatic story of William Denson, a soft-spoken young lawyer from Alabama whisked from teaching law at West Point to leading the prosecution in the largest series of Nazi trials in history.
In a makeshift courtroom set up inside Hitler's first concentration camp, Denson was charged with building a team from lawyers who had no background in war crimes and determining charges for crimes that courts had never before confirmed. Among the accused were Dr. Klaus Schilling, responsible for hundreds of deaths in his research for a cure for malaria; Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, a Harvard psychologist turned Gestapo informant; and one of history's most notorious female war criminals, Ilse Koch, Bitch of Buchenwald, whose penchant for tattooed skins and human bone lamps made headlines worldwide.
Denson, just 32 years old, with one criminal trial to his name, led a brilliant and successful prosecution, but nearly two years of exposure to such horrors took its toll. His wife divorced him, his weight dropped to 116 pounds, and he collapsed from exhaustion. Worst of all was the pressure from his army superiors to bring the trials to a rapid end when their agenda shifted away from punishing Nazis to winning the Germans' support in the emerging Cold War. Denson persevered, determined to create a careful record of responsibility for the crimes of the Holocaust. When, in a final shocking twist, the United States used clandestine reversals and commutation of sentences to set free those found guilty at Dachau, Denson risked his army career to try to prevent justice from being undone.
Originally published in 2001 and never before available in paperback, this new edition celebrates the 70th anniversary of the start of the Dachau trials and revisits the extraordinary work of one of history's forgotten heroes.
Praise for Justice at Dachau
A new American hero--William Denson--bursts forward in the riveting pages of Justice at Dachau. An Alabama lawyer, Denson was sent to Europe by the U.S. Army to prosecute Nazi butchers feigning innocence in the bloody aftermath of the Second World War. Brilliantly written and fastidiously researched, Joshua M. Greene's narrative builds chapter by chapter in dramatic Hollywood-like fashion. Each war criminal Denson convicts brings a cheer to the heart. This is historical storytelling at its finest.
-- Douglas Brinkley, former director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans and coeditor of Witness to America, with Stephen Ambrose
Justice at Dachau is a mesmerizing account of one of history's most infamous periods. Joshua Greene takes the reader back in time by weaving together a riveting narrative of the trial and its central figure, Judge Advocate William Denson, a true hero and humanitarian. This book is destined to be a classic among Holocaust histories.
-- Patrick O'Donnell, author of Beyond Valor and Into the Rising Sun
[This book] has immense value. First, it provides a permanent testimony of the horror of the Hitler regime and the courage of its adversaries. More important, it resolves a long-standing misimpression concerning the efforts of those in the post-Holocaust period who strived to establish a democratic foundation for human rights. Justice at Dachau is an irreplaceable document.
-- Arthur Haulot, founder of the Underground Prisoner Committee inside Camp Dachau
A remarkable account of one determined prosecutor's quest to reveal and punish the atrocities committed by German officials at the Nazi concentration accounts.
-- Drexel A. Sprecher, former Nuremberg prosecutor and author of Inside the Nuremberg Trial: A Prosecutor's Comprehensive Account
An exciting account of the course of the Dachau trial proceedings. It is not the least thanks to William Denson's sense of justice, tied to deep empathy with the victims of the accused, that the Dachau trials have become a historical lesson in dealing with crimes against humanity.
-- Barbara Distel, former director of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site
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