Download or read book Atrocities on Trial written by Patricia Heberer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays are organised into four sections, dealing with the history of war crime trials from Weimar Germany to just after World War II, the sometimes diverging Allied attempts to come to terms with the Nazi concentration camp system, the ability of postwar societies to confront war crimes of the past and the legacy of war crime trials.