Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Genocide & War Crimes

At the outbreak of World War II, more than 115,000 Japanese American civilians living on the West Coast of the United States were rounded up and sent to desolate "relocation" camps, where most spent the duration of the war. In this poignant and bitter yet inspiring oral history, John Tateishi allows thirty Japanese Americans, victims of this trauma, to speak for themselves. And Justice for All captures the personal feelings and experiences of the only group of American citizens ever to be confined in concentration camps in the United States. In this new edition of the book, which...

Major themes include:
- Why Weimar democracy failed
- How Hitler rose to power
- How the Nazi regime affected people in Germany
- The successes and failures of Nazi foreign policy.

In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, Rwandan women faced the impossible resurrecting their lives amidst unthinkable devastation. Haunted by memories of lost loved ones and of their own experiences of violence, women rebuilt their lives from less than nothing. Neither passive victims nor innate peacemakers, they traversed dangerous emotional and political terrain to emerge as leaders in Rwanda today. This clear and engaging ethnography of survival tackles three interrelated phenomena memory, silence, and justice and probes the contradictory roles women played in postgenocide...

The 400-plus entries in "Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes: An Encyclopedia" provide accessible and concise information on the difficult subject of abject human violence committed on all continents. The entries in this two-volume work describe atrocities, massacres, and war crimes committed in the 20th century, thereby documenting how human beings have repeatedly proven their capability to commit horrific acts of inhumanity even in relatively recent times and within the modern era. The encyclopedia covers countries, treaties, and terms; profiles individuals who had been formally...

The unearthing of the...

The unearthing of the...

Since then, fearsome figures such as Charles Taylor, Laurent Gbagbo, and Ratko Mladic have been tried in international criminal court, and a global movement has rallied around the human rights framework of justice. Any such legal...

This is the definitive history of the Nuremberg crimes trials by one of the key participants, Telford Taylor, the distinguished lawyer who was a...

In 1915, the Armenians were exiled from their land, and in the process of deportation 1.5 million of them were killed. The 1915-1916 annihilation of the Armenians was the archetype of modern genocide, in which a state adopts a specific scheme geared to the destruction of an identifiable group of its own citizens. Official German diplomatic documents are of great importance in understanding the genocide, as only Germany had the right to report day-by-day in secret code about the ongoing genocide. The motives, methods, and after-effects of the Armenian Genocide echoed strongly in subsequent...

Mayer demonstrates that, while the Nazis' anti-Semitism was always virulent, it did not becomegenocidal until well into the Second World War, when the failure of their massive,...

Beste familie en vrienden, dit boek is in de eerste plaats voor jullie.

Deze herinneringen heb ik aanvankelijk voor mij-zelf aan het papier toevertrouwd. Dit om via mijn
schrijverijen uit te maken in welke mate mijn turbulente jeugd invloed had op mijn later gedrag.
Gedrag dat niet altijd even plausibel was. Sommige oorzaken van het waarom zijn niet steeds even
duidelijk, ande-re weer wel. Voor het laatste denk ik dan specifiek aan alle vormen van discriminatie,
vooral op vlak van taal en herkomst.

Aanvankelijk uitgegeven in het Esperanto, heb ik, op...

As many as 170 million civilians across the world were victims of genocide and mass atrocity in the 20th century. Now that we have entered the 21st century, little light has been brought to that darkness as civilians still find themselves under brutal...