2021/12/23 by Michael Fleming · 15 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Commission #Economic Justice #Economic history #European history and politics #German #German government #Government (linguistics) #Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics #History #International law #Law #Nazism #Political science #Politics #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Shadow (psychology) #Spanish Civil War #The Holocaust #War crime #World War II
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/9781009106719
published in Cambridge University Press eBooks (Cambridge University Press)
openalex publication_date 2021/12/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
In the midst of the Second World War, the Allies acknowledged Germany's ongoing programme of extermination. In the Shadow of the Holocaust examines the struggle to attain post-war justice and prosecution. Focusing on Poland's engagement with the United Nations War Crimes Commission, it analyses the different ways that the Polish Government in Exile (based in London from 1940) agitated for an Allied response to German atrocities. Michael Fleming shows that jurists associated with the Government in Exile made significant contributions to legal debates on war crimes and, along with others, paid attention to German crimes against Jews. By exploring the relationship between the UNWCC and the Polish War Crimes Office under the authority of the Polish Government in Exile and later, from the summer of 1945, the Polish Government in Warsaw, Fleming provides a new lens through which to examine the early stages of the Cold War.