Contrasting Strategies within the War Crimes Trials of Kesselring and Wolff |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Kerstin?von?LingenEmail author Michael?Salter |
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Institution: | 1.Centre for Studies on Experiences in War (SFB 437 “Kriegserfahrungen”),Universit?t Tübingen,Tübingen,Germany;2.The Law School,University of Central Lancashire,United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | This article compares the different ways in which, during the post-war decades, the Allied war crimes trials programme responded
to the war criminality of two prominent German officials: Field Marshal Albert Kesselring and SS General Karl Wolff. It explores
the question of why Wolff, whose complicity was arguably much greater than that of Kesselring, received more favourable treatment,
and the role of various political and geo-political factors, including those influencing the interventions of US intelligence
officials, as explanations for this apparent legal discrepancy.
Dr. Kerstin von Lingen is a researcher at the Centre for Studies on Experiences in War (SFB 437 “Kriegserfahrungen”) at Tubingen
University, Germany; Dr. Michael Salter is Professor of Law at The Law School, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom. |
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Keywords: | Kesselring immunity Italy Nazi war crimes Nuremberg OSS Wolff |
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