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„Ich freue mich besonders über dieses Buch und die darin vorgenommene kritische Bilanz über eine repräsentative Auswahl geführter NS-Prozesse aus der juristischen Sicht eines ehemaligen Richters in der Justiz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.
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Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China.
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Written by the Director of the Tokyo Trial Research Centre at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, this book provides a unique analysis of war crime trials in Asia-Pacific after World War II.
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In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles stripped Germany of its overseas colonies. This sudden transition to a post-colonial nation left the men and women invested in German imperialism to rebuild their status on the international stage.
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The United States has invested billions of dollars and countless diplomatic hours in the pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian peace and a two-state solution. Yet American attempts to broker an end to the conflict have repeatedly come up short.
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This is the controversial history of the British government's involvement in the Zionist project, from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the present day.
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The author looks at the history of the Balfour Declaration, the role of the British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour (1848-1930), the history of the Zionist movement ... all leading to the establishment of the State of Israel and the Palestinian dysphoria.
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Capture of Maastricht, 1632
25-08-2020
Capture of Maastricht, 1632. Strada: Histoire de la guerre des Païs Bas.
The collections of the Peace Palace Library on the Wikimedia Commons consist of 1985 high resolution photographs of prints from old books, and of other subjects.
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World War I, or called at the time the Great War, is rapidly fading into the mists of history, as distant and as elusive as the Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century, or even the Middle Ages.
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The Peace of Christmas Eve
21-12-2019
Peace is an elusive thing. Everyone wants peace, yet few seem to actually possess it in any substantive form. For many, the attraction of the Christmas season is the momentary fulfillment of that dream, the wonderful moment of 'Peace on Earth'. For one night, it seems possible.
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All armed conflicts are covered by the basic rules and principles of the laws of war, wherever the theatre of operations might be, land, sea or air. Some treaty and customary law specifically refers to certain aspects of aerial warfare.
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The Second Anglo-Dutch War has been of great significance to the development of maritime warfare. During the war, tactics for joint action were developed and measures to uphold discipline issued.
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Mr. Andrew Carnegie's ♫ Peace March ♫
30-05-2017
A long-lost march by the Dutch composer J.J.H. van Rosmalen has been rediscovered here at the Library, a century after its creation in 1914.
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An international investigation has been launched into the mysterious disappearance of Dutch Second World War shipwrecks which have vanished from the bottom of the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia.
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Is Sudan set for a Divorce?
03-02-2011
Sudan has a history of protracted conflict between the predominately Muslim north and the largely Christian south.
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On 26 April 1986, now thirty years ago, a vast accident happened in a nuclear powerplant in Chernobyl, Ukraine (formerly the Soviet Union). The fire in unit 4 of the nuclear power plant released massive amounts of radioactive material into the air.
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Written by the Director of the Tokyo Trial Research Centre at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, this book provides a unique analysis of war crime trials in Asia-Pacific after World War II.
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Fully utilizing the latest archival material, this book provides a comprehensive, multi-dimensional and nuanced understanding of the Tokyo Tribunal by delving into the temporal aspects that extended the relevance and reverberations of the Tribunal beyond its end in 1948.
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The Nuremberg Trials mark an important moment in the history of international law.
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Nasaw, D., Andrew Carnegie, 2006
11-10-2019
Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel. His rags to riches story has never been told as dramatically and vividly as in Nasaw’s new biography.