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Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations

The History and Legacy of Tito’s Campaign Against the Emigrés

By: Christian Axboe Nielsen

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Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations

The History and Legacy of Tito’s Campaign Against the Emigrés

By: Christian Axboe Nielsen

Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations is the first book in English to analyse how and why the Yugoslav State Security Service carried out multiple targeted assassinations, over the country's forty-six years of existence, under the pretext of protecting the Yugoslav communist party-state. Offering a detailed history of the programme, from the inception of the State Security Service to the recent trials of individuals involved, it draws on Christian Axboe Nielsen's unique wealth of experience and research as an academic and as an expert witness in numerous criminal trials. The result is a ground-breaking contribution to the history of targeted assassinations, communist history, state security services and related criminal trials.

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1788316878

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Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations

The History and Legacy of Tito’s Campaign Against the Emigrés

By: Christian Axboe Nielsen

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The History and Legacy of Tito’s Campaign Against the Emigrés

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Mass Atrocities and the Police

A New History of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina

By: Christian Axboe Nielsen

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Mass Atrocities and the Police

A New History of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina

By: Christian Axboe Nielsen

Between April 1992 and December 1995, more than 100,000 people were killed in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The terrible atrocities committed in this period have been much discussed and studied and many prosecuted as acts of genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity. But so far, the academic scholarship has focused on the role of the military in these events. This has come at the expense of considering the police's role, which Nielsen here demonstrates as crucial. Nielsen traces the origins of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina to the police and associated paramilitary groups. Nielsen makes this ground-breaking case by drawing on a host of confidential archival sources, academic research and practical experience as a widely cited expert witness in the most notorious of the war crimes tribunals. His innovative new history sheds light on wider issues regarding the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Balkan wars and the region today.

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249

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350204579

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Making Yugoslavs

Identity in King Aleksandar's Yugoslavia

By: Christian Axboe Nielsen

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Making Yugoslavs

Identity in King Aleksandar's Yugoslavia

By: Christian Axboe Nielsen

When Yugoslavia was created in 1918, the new state was a patchwork of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and other ethnic groups. It still was in January 1929, when King Aleksandar suspended the Yugoslav constitution and began an ambitious program to impose a new Yugoslav national identity on his subjects. By the time Aleksandar was killed by an assassin’s bullet five years later, he not only had failed to create a unified Yugoslav nation but his dictatorship had also contributed to an increase in interethnic tensions. In Making Yugoslavs, Christian Axboe Nielsen uses extensive archival research to explain the failure of the dictatorship’s program of forced nationalization. Focusing on how ordinary Yugoslavs responded to Aleksandar’s nationalization project, the book illuminates an often-ignored era of Yugoslav history whose lessons remain relevant not just for the study of Balkan history but for many multiethnic societies today.

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University of Toronto Press

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144266925X

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The Extermination of the European Jews

By: Christian Gerlach

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The Extermination of the European Jews

By: Christian Gerlach

A major new interpretation of the Holocaust, contextualizing the destruction of the Jews within Nazi violence against other groups.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521880785

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The Betrayal

The Nuremberg Trials and German Divergence

By: Kim Christian Priemel

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The Betrayal

The Nuremberg Trials and German Divergence

By: Kim Christian Priemel

At the end of World War II the Allies faced a threefold challenge: how to punish perpetrators of appalling crimes for which the categories of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' had to be coined; how to explain that these had been committed by Germany, of all nations; and how to reform Germans. The Allied answer to this conundrum was the application of historical reasoning to legal procedure. In the thirteen Nuremberg trials held between 1945 and 1949, and in corresponding cases elsewhere, a concerted effort was made to punish key perpetrators while at the same time providing a complex analysis of the Nazi state and German history. Building on a long debate about Germany's divergence from a presumed Western path of development, Allied prosecutors sketched a historical trajectory which had led Germany to betray the Western model. Historical reasoning both accounted for the moral breakdown of a 'civilised' nation and rendered plausible arguments that this had indeed been a collective failure rather than one of a small criminal clique. The prosecutors therefore carefully laid out how institutions such as private enterprise, academic science, the military, or bureaucracy, which looked ostensibly similar to their opposite numbers in the Allied nations, had been corrupted in Germany even before Hitler's rise to power. While the argument, depending on individual protagonists, subject matters, and contexts, met with uneven success in court, it offered a final twist which was of obvious appeal in the Cold War to come: if Germany had lost its way, it could still be brought back into the Western fold. The first comprehensive study of the Nuremberg trials, The Betrayal thus also explores how history underpins transitional trials as we encounter them in today's courtrooms from Arusha to The Hague.

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Oxford University Press

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0191648523

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Making Yugoslavs

Identity in King Aleksandar's Yugoslavia

By: Christian Axboe Nielsen

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Identity in King Aleksandar's Yugoslavia

By: Christian Axboe Nielsen

Christian Axboe Nielsen uses extensive archival research to explain the failure of King Aleksandar's dictatorship's program of forced nationalization in the interwar era.

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Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations

Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations

Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations

Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations

Mass Atrocities and the Police

Mass Atrocities and the Police

Making Yugoslavs

Making Yugoslavs

The Extermination of the European Jews

The Extermination of the European Jews

The Betrayal

The Betrayal

Making Yugoslavs

Making Yugoslavs

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