Australia's war crimes trials 1945-51

PART I. Trial Context, Issues and Perspectives -- The Australian war crimes trials, 1945-51 / Tim McCormack and Narrelle Morris -- The Emperor's army: military operations and ideology in the war against Australia / Steven Bullard -- Jurisdiction of the Australian military courts 1945-51 / Tim M...

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Contributors: Fitzpatrick, Georgina (Editor) ; McCormack, Tim (Editor) ; Morris, Narrelle (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden Boston Brill Nijhoff [2016]
In: International humanitarian law series (volume 48)
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Keywords:
Australien > Japan > Pazifischer Raum > Kriegsverbrechen > Strafverfahren > Geschichte 1945-1951
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War crime trials > Australia
War criminals > Japan
World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities > Asia
World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities > Pacific Area
World War, 1939-1945 > Destruction and pillage > Asia
World War, 1939-1945 > Japan
World War, 1939-1945 > Law and legislation > Australia
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Summary:PART I. Trial Context, Issues and Perspectives -- The Australian war crimes trials, 1945-51 / Tim McCormack and Narrelle Morris -- The Emperor's army: military operations and ideology in the war against Australia / Steven Bullard -- Jurisdiction of the Australian military courts 1945-51 / Tim McCormack -- The Australian military courts under the War Crimes Act 1945: structure and approach / Michael Paes -- Command responsibility and other grounds of criminal responsibility / Gideon Boas and Lisa Lee -- Obedience to superior orders and related defences / Monique Cormier and Sarah Finnin -- The prosecution of crimes against civilians / Bridget Dunne and Helen Durham -- Crimes against captured airmen / Tristan Moss and Georgina Fitzpatrick -- Crimes against Asians in command responsibility trials / Yuma Totani -- Cannibalism and the war crimes trials / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- Death sentences, Japanese war criminals and the Australian military / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- Part II. Trial Locations -- The trials on Morotai / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- The trials at Wewak / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- The trials on Labuan / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- The trials in Darwin / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- The trials in Rabaul / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- The trials in Singapore / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- The trials in Hong Kong / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- Last Trials: Manus Island / Georgina Fitzpatrick - PART III. Post-Trial Reflections -- The Australian war criminals compounds at Rabaul and on Manus Island, 1945-53 / Narrelle Morris -- Changing direction: repatriation of Japanese war criminals in Australian custody / Dean Aszkielowicz -- The 'post-war' of the BC-class war criminals: how did war criminals react to the Australian trials? / Utsumi Aiko and Udagawa Kōta, translated by Steven Bullard -- Were the Australian trials fair? / Narrelle Morris and Tim McCormack -- Appendix I. War Crimes Act 1945 (Cth) -- Appendix II. Regulations for the trial of war criminals 1945 (Cth) -- Appendix III. Board of inquiry list of war crimes -- Appendix IV. Trials list with National Archives of Australia series and item number
Physical Description:XLVI, 865 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9789004292048