Bruno Tesch was tried and executed for his company's Zyklon B gas used in Nazi Germany's extermination camps. This book examines this trial and the more than 300 other economic actors who faced prosecution for the Holocaust's crimes against humanity. It further tracks and analyses similar transitional justice mechanisms for holding economic actors accountable for human rights violations in dictatorships and armed conflict: international, foreign, and domestic trials and truth commissions from the 1970s to the present in every region of the world. This book probes what these accountability efforts are, why they take place, and when, where, and how they unfold. Analysis of the authors' original database leads them to conclude that 'corporate accountability from below' is underway, particularly in Latin America. A kind of Archimedes' lever places the right tools in weak local actors' hands to lift weighty international human rights claims, overcoming the near absence of international pressure and the powerful veto power of business.
This 68-page, full color, softcover book describes the history of Fort Walla Walla from 1821 to 1910 through engaging text richly illustrated with historic images and artifacts. Published by the Fort Walla Walla Museum located in Walla Walla, Washington, the book contains details about the original fort built by Hudson's Bay Company that was followed by one of the longest-occupied military posts in the Northwest. It also includes the full text of Capt. F. H. Pope's 1908 history of the fort.
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