1st Edition

Nazi War Crimes, US Intelligence and Selective Prosecution at Nuremberg Controversies Regarding the Role of the Office of Strategic Services

By Michael Salter Copyright 2007
472 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

468 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

472 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

Reviewing recently declassified CIA documents, this book provides a balanced but critical discussion of the contribution of American intelligence officials to the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Giving new details of how senior Nazi war criminals, such as SS General Karl Wolff, were provided with effective immunity deals, partly as a reward for their wartime cooperation with US intelligence... Read more

1. Introducing the Rationale, Aims and Methodology  2. Evidence of the War Criminality of the Wolff Group  3. The Geo-political Context of the Peace Negotiations Surrounding OSS' Operation Sunrise  4. Intervening on Behalf of Karl Wolff  5. Protecting the Wider Sunrise Group: Zimmer, Dollmann and Wenner  6. The Contribution of OSS Officials to the Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes  7. Gathering and Analysing the Materials that Became the R-Series of Nuremberg Trial Evidence  8. General Donovan's Contribution to the Nuremberg Trials.  Summation: Taking Stock

Biography

Michael Salter is Professor of Law at Lancashire Law School, UK.

"Michael Salter's contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of intelligence operations and war crimes cannot be underestimated." - David Fraser, Journal of Law and Society, vol. 32 no. 2 (June 2008)

 

"Salter's book will appeal to scholars of wartime intelligence and postwar justice...it is important for what it tells us about the multifaceted and nuanced relationship between intelligence and justice, for its incorporation of the OSS into the narrative of the pre-history of the Nuremberg Trials, and for its new revelations on the long afterlife of Operation Sunrise." - Norman J.W. Goda, (Department of History, Ohio University) H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Online (March 2009)