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The Politics of Reckoning: German War Crimes, Allied Justice, and the Meaning of Punishment after the First World War.

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Title/Author:	The Politics of Reckoning: German War Crimes, Allied Justice, and the Meaning of Punishment after the First World War./
Author:	Gilner, Patrick Lee.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	571 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-07A.
Subject:	European history. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27667151
ISBN:	9781392479841

The Politics of Reckoning: German War Crimes, Allied Justice, and the Meaning of Punishment after the First World War.
Gilner, Patrick Lee.

The Politics of Reckoning: German War Crimes, Allied Justice, and the Meaning of Punishment after the First World War. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 571 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation examines the first international attempt to render justice for wartime atrocities and violations of international law. After the First World War, the Allied Powers devised a program to punish Germans accused of war crimes before an unprecedented international tribunal. This Punishment Program was intended to usher in a new era of global justice and accountability, beginning with the prosecution of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Written directly into the Treaty of Versailles, the punishment terms compelled German officials to extradite German citizens to their erstwhile enemies as a condition of maintaining peace. However, less than a year later, the initial plan was abandoned, becoming the first major failure of the Versailles system. The Allies were forced to cede authority to the Germans themselves, and the subsequent "Leipzig Trials" also failed to produce the intended outcomes.This dissertation uses archival and published sources to examine the period between the armistice in November 1918 and the decision to allow German authorities to conduct trials themselves in February 1920. In Part I, I trace the Punishment Program from its origins during the war to the Paris Peace Conference. I argue that revanchist zeal among the Allied homefronts placed enormous pressure on Allied leaders to punish the enemy, but this imperative proved irreconcilable with the divergent political interests and legal doctrines among the peacemakers. In Part II, I examine the Punishment Program's reception in Germany, where counterrevolutionary nationalists, conservatives, and officers used the punishment issue to consolidate popular resentment under an anti-republican banner. These reactionaries mobilized populist unrest against the democratically-elected Weimar government, bringing it to its knees. I argue that the Punishment Program failed to account for the volatile domestic situation in Germany, ultimately destabilizing the new democratic regime and emboldening the imperialist, nationalist, and military milieus that embodied Germany's wartime transgressions.

ISBN: 9781392479841Subjects--Topical Terms:

1972904
European history.
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Germany

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