Australia's War Crimes Trials 1945-51 / by Georgina Fitzpatrick, Tim McCormack, Narrelle Morris.
| Author/creator | Fitzpatrick, Georgina |
| Other author | McCormack, Timothy L. H. |
| Other author | Morris, Narrelle. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill Nijhoff, [2016] |
| Description | xlvi, 865 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | International Humanitarian Law Series ; volume 48 International humanitarian law series 48. ^A1125620 |
| Contents | PART I. Trial Context, Issues and Perspectives -- The Australian war crimes trials, 1945-51 / Tim McCormack and Narrelle Morris -- The Emperor's army: military operations and ideology in the war against Australia / Steven Bullard -- Jurisdiction of the Australian military courts 1945-51 / Tim McCormack -- The Australian military courts under the War Crimes Act 1945: structure and approach / Michael Paes -- Command responsibility and other grounds of criminal responsibility / Gideon Boas and Lisa Lee -- Obedience to superior orders and related defences / Monique Cormier and Sarah Finnin -- The prosecution of crimes against civilians / Bridget Dunne and Helen Durham -- Crimes against captured airmen / Tristan Moss and Georgina Fitzpatrick -- Crimes against Asians in command responsibility trials / Yuma Totani -- Cannibalism and the war crimes trials / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- Death sentences, Japanese war criminals and the Australian military / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- Part II. Trial Locations -- The trials on Morotai / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- The trials at Wewak / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- The trials on Labuan / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- The trials in Darwin / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- The trials in Rabaul / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- The trials in Singapore / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- The trials in Hong Kong / Georgina Fitzpatrick -- Last Trials: Manus Island / Georgina Fitzpatrick - PART III. Post-Trial Reflections -- The Australian war criminals compounds at Rabaul and on Manus Island, 1945-53 / Narrelle Morris -- Changing direction: repatriation of Japanese war criminals in Australian custody / Dean Aszkielowicz -- The 'post-war' of the BC-class war criminals: how did war criminals react to the Australian trials? / Utsumi Aiko and Udagawa Kōta, translated by Steven Bullard -- Were the Australian trials fair? / Narrelle Morris and Tim McCormack -- Appendix I. War Crimes Act 1945 (Cth) -- Appendix II. Regulations for the trial of war criminals 1945 (Cth) -- Appendix III. Board of inquiry list of war crimes -- Appendix IV. Trials list with National Archives of Australia series and item number. |
| General note | "IHUL 48" |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016946380 |
| ISBN | 9789004292048 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9004292047 |