Foreword by Michael R. Marrus Introduction: War Crimes Trials and the HistorianPart I. Precedents in PunishmentThe Lessons of Leipzig: Punishing German War Criminals after the First World War / Jurgen Matthaus Early Postwar Justice in the American Zone: Hadamar Murder Factory Trial / Patricia Heberer U.S. Army War Crimes Trials in Germany, 1945-1947 / Lisa YavnaiPart II. Allied Courts and German Crimes in the Context of NurembergLaw and Politics in the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, 1946-1949 / Jonathan Friedman Nuremberg Doctors' Trial and the Limitations of Context / Michael R. Marrus The Scars of Ravensbruck: Medical Experiments and British War Crimes Policy, 1945-1950 / Ulf Schmidt Sachsenhausen Trials: War Crimes Prosecution in the Soviet Occupation Zone and in West and East Germany / Jonathan FriedmanPart III. Postwar Society and the Nazi PastNo Ordinary Criminal: Georg Heuser, Other Mass Murderers, and West German Justice / Jurgen Matthaus Tainted Law: West German Judiciary and the Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals / Rebecca Wittmann Justice in Austrian Courts? Case of Josef W. and Austria's Difficult Relationship with Its Past / Patricia HebererPart IV. Current Aspects and ImplicationsCrimes-against-Humanity Trials in France and Their Historical and Legal Contexts: A Retrospective Look / Richard J. Golsan Milestones and Mythologies: Impact of Nuremberg / Donald Bloxham Prosecution, Condemnation, and Punishment: Ethical Implications of Atrocities on Trial / John K. Roth