"Opposing "Victors' Justice
German Protestant Churchmen and Convicted War Criminals in Western Europe after 19451
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12727423 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald Webster (York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-69 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust and Genocide Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7937 • E-ISSN: 8756-6583 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hgs/15.1.47 |
| OpenAlex | W2049124471 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article analyzes the post-1945 intervention of German Protestant churchmen on behalf of those convicted war criminals who, for the most part, were still awaiting execution in French, Dutch, and Belgian prisons at the beginning of the 1950s.2 All of these men were eventually pardoned. The churchmen, beyond their humanitarian role, became not only official advocates but even ardent apologists for the prisoners, the author argues. Bishop Hans Stempel, the German Protestant Church's official representa-tive to the prisoners in Western Europe, stands out as the key figure in this story
Archaeology · Criminology · Economic Justice · German · Intervention (counseling · Political science · Protestantism · Psychiatry · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Psychology · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |