TY - BOOK ID - 50231148 TI - The Malmedy Massacre : the war crimes trial controversy PY - 2017 SN - 9780674971950 PB - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Malmedy Massacre, 1944-1945. KW - Malmedy Trial, Dachau, Germany, 1946. KW - War crime trials KW - Public opinion. KW - Malmedy massacre, 1944-1945 KW - Malmedy Trial, Dachau, Germany, 1946 KW - Public opinion KW - Malmédy, Massacre de (1944) KW - Crimes de guerre KW - Procès KW - Opinion publique. KW - Malmédy, Massacre de (1944) KW - Procès UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:50231148 AB - During the Battle of the Bulge, Waffen SS soldiers shot 84 American prisoners near the Belgian town of Malmedy - the deadliest mass execution of U.S. soldiers during World War II. After a long investigation, the U.S. Army tried and convicted 74 accused perpetrators. What followed was a decade of controversy in the United States and Germany over accusations that American interrogators had tortured the defendants and forced them to sign false confessions. In Germany, the accusations fueled intense opposition to war crimes trials and tested the limits of the West German-American alliance. The Malmedy Massacre reveals the extent to which ex-Nazis and their sympathizers have shaped our understanding of one of the war's most infamous crimes. At a time when a historically informed debate about military courts and interrogation methods is necessary, the book provides an in-depth look at how a war crimes case was made and unmade at the dawn of the Cold War. -- ER -