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Australia's War Crimes Trials 1945-51 / by Georgina Fitzpatrick, Tim McCormack, Narrelle Morris.

Author/creator Fitzpatrick, Georgina
Other author/creatorMcCormack, Timothy L. H.
Other author/creatorMorris, Narrelle.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoLeiden, The Netherlands : Brill Nijhoff, [2016]
Descriptionxlvi, 865 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series International Humanitarian Law Series ; volume 48
International humanitarian law series 48. ^A1125620
Contents 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.
General note"IHUL 48"
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016946380
ISBN9789004292048 (hardback)
ISBN9004292047

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