BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:The Dachau Trials: an introduction to sentencing practices. - Gret
 a Lawrence (Peterhouse)
DTSTART:20130507T163000Z
DTEND:20130507T180000Z
UID:TALK45280@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Gui Xi Young
DESCRIPTION:The American military conducted trials at the former concentra
 tion camp at Dachau in Allied-occupied Germany from November 1945 - Decemb
 er 1947. The tribunal program included 240 trials involving 1045 defendant
 s from the ranks of camp personnel from the concentration camps in the Ame
 rican zone of occupation\, namely Dachau\, Mauthausen\, Flossenburg\, Buch
 enwald\, and Nordhausen. For the trials at Dachau\, the American army lawy
 ers\, led by William Dowdell Densen\, chose to frame their prosecution of 
 Nazi criminals on the tradition of international laws of war instead of on
  the new interpretation of criminal law\, particularly the idea of crimes 
 against humanity\, developed for the Nuremberg trials. The initial sentenc
 es\, and reviews of those sentences\, were the result of a series of judgm
 ents made by American military personnel designed to ensure a fair trial a
 nd just punishment for the offenders. This was considered of primary impor
 tance to the military's two\, potentially dichotomous\, goals of punishing
  war offenses while pacifying potential German agitation in the American z
 one of occupation. This paper will focus on the sentences at the Dachau tr
 ials.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room S3 Alison Richard Building
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR