Hitler’s Atrocities against Allied PoWs: War Crimes of the Third Reich by Philip Chinnery


Hitler’s Atrocities against Allied PoWs: War Crimes of the Third Reich
Hardcover : Hitler’s Atrocities against Allied PoWs: War Crimes of the Third Reich By Philip Chinnery
ISBN : 1526701871
ISBN-13 : 9781526701879
Publication : Published July 31, 2018
Number of Pages : 344
Format Type : Hardcover
Title : Hitler’s Atrocities against Allied PoWs: War Crimes of the Third Reich
Author : Philip Chinnery

Hitler’s Atrocities against Allied PoWs: War Crimes of the Third Reich

Hitler’s Atrocities against Allied PoWs: War Crimes of the Third Reich By Philip Chinnery
1526701871
9781526701879
English
344
Hardcover
Seventy years ago the Nuremberg Trials were in full swing in Germany In the dock were the leaders of the Nazi regime and most eventually received their just desserts But what happened to the other war criminals In June 1946 Lord Russell of Liverpool became Deputy Judge Advocate and legal adviser to the Commander in Chief for the British Army of the Rhine in respect of all trials held by British Military Courts of German war criminals He later wrote At the outbreak of the Second World War the treatment of prisoners was governed by the Geneva Prisoner of War Convention of 1929 the Preamble of which stated that the aim of the signatories was to alleviate the conditions of prisoners of war During the war however the provisions of the Convention were repeatedly disregarded by Germany Prisoners were subjected to brutality and ill treatment employed on prohibited and dangerous work handed over to the SD for special treatment in pursuance of Hitler s Commando Order lynched in the streets by German civilians sent to concentration camps shot on recapture after escaping and even massacred after they had laid down their arms and surrendered Tens of thousands of Allied prisoners of war died at the hands of the Nazis and their Italian allies This book is for them lest we forget Hitler s Atrocities against Allied PoWs War Crimes of the Third Reich.