Early public diplomacy on the Holocaust – the United Nations Review
Through our research into the early UN, we happen across a lot of interesting files that go against conventional historical narratives. The documents of the United Nations Information Organisation - an early public diplomacy body established by the Allies to...
International Bar Association paper on UNWCC
A publication of the War Crimes Committee by the International Bar...
Review of Human Rights after Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes
Human Rights after Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes has been reviewed on the American Academy of Religion’s online book review website. The review of the book can be found...
Drancy and Breendonck
A wide range of cases were handled by the UNWCC - some of the earliest included the prosecutions of Alois Brunner, commandant at Drancy (1, 2), as well as camp staff for Breendonck (1)....
World War I, the Paris Peace Process and the Untold Legacy for the International Prosecution of War Crimes
World War I, the Paris Peace Process and the untold legacy for the international prosecution of war crimes The legacy of the Paris Peace process at the end of World War I is usually portrayed as one of unmitigated failure and indeed creating the conditions that...
National Offices Conference
The National Offices Conference was one of the key events in the history of the UNWCC - a summit bringing together representatives of all sixteen national offices that worked with the Commission in the Royal Courts of Justice, in May/June 1945, with the aim of...
The last Nazi hunters
Dr Dan Plesch's research cited in The Guardian once again - The author of a new history on the UN War Crimes Commission, concluded, “Right now, you see a German chancellor and public who are ironically more alive to the dangers, more willing to share the past, than...
Human Rights After Hitler – in the news!
Following the release of Human Rights After Hitler, we've been delighted at the extensive positive press coverage - including an interview NPR, and articles in Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, the Independent, the Deutsche Welle, CBS, Radio News ABC Australia, PassBlue...
Hitler in the charge files of the UNWCC
Of the many surprising documents in the UNWCC's archive, one of the most striking would be the indictment for Adolf Hitler. The idea that 'ordinary foot soldiers' were accused in detailed, secret, well-documented files is one thing; seeing the preparatory trial...
US Book Launch: Human Rights After Hitler – April 19th 2017, Mott House
Dan Plesch will present Human Rights after Hitler at a US book launch hosted by the Centre for International Policy and Georgetown University Press on Wednesday April 19th, 6pm-8pm, at Mott House, Washington DC. This book reveals thousands of forgotten US and Allied...
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