Defeating Impunity

Ornella Rovetta is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in contemporary history at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Université Saint Louis. Her research interests include the history of international criminal justice and of Rwanda. She is the author of Un génocide au tribunal. Le Rwanda et la justice internationale and co-authored a radio documentary on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

“Defeating Impunity collects strong, substantial new research, often providing the main (or only) English-language presentation of the underlying research in the history of war crimes trials. The editors achieve nuance in a sober and balanced assessment of ‘international justice,’ a topic which previously has inspired cynical dismissal.” • Devin Pendas, Boston College

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsChronologyIntroduction: Defeating Impunity in Twentieth-Century EuropeOrnella Rovetta and Pieter LagrouChapter 1. The Law of Military Occupation and the Belgian Trials after 1918Thomas GraditzkyChapter 2. The Claims of Belgian Deported Workers at the Paris Mixed Arbitral Tribunal in 1924Arnaud CharonChapter 3. Coining Postwar Justice from the Margins: Exile Lawyers in London, 1941–1945Kerstin von LingenChapter 4. The Treasure Trove of the United Nations War Crimes Commission Archives, 1943—1949Wolfgang FormChapter 5. Legal Imagination and Legal Realism: ‘Crimes against Humanity’ and the US Racial Question in 1945Guillaume MouralisChapter 6. Filling the Legal Void: Jewish Victims, German Offenders and Belgian Judges, 1942–1951Marie-Anne WeisersChapter 7. Soviet Footage of War Crimes, 1941–1946: Between Propaganda and Judicial EvidenceVanessa VoisinAppendix 7.1: Circular Sent to the Chiefs of Cinema Front Groups by Fedor Vasilchenko, the Director of Newsreel Production, 8 September 1943 (Excepts)Appendix 7.2: Circular Sent to the Chiefs of Cinema Front Groups by the Director of Newsreel Production Fedor Vasilchenko, 3 December 1943 (Excerpts)Chapter 8. From Majdanek to Demjanjuk: Failures of Justice in Postwar Germany, 1958–2009Rebecca WittmannChapter 9. Force of Fact: Municipal Authorities, Victim Associations and Forensic Science at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former YugoslaviaIsabelle DelplaChapter 10. International Law in Action: The Role of the Legal Advisor in Operations in the Twenty-First CenturyChris De CockConclusionOrnella Rovetta and Pieter LagrouIndex