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The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, 1939-1945 (review) (1409 words) |
 | The study grew out of research de Zayas undertook among previously unexamined German war-time legal records while he was director of the "Working Group on the Laws of War" at the Institute of International Law at Göttingen University (from which institution he also holds a Ph.D. in history). |
| De Zayas reiterates that "the War Crimes Bureau was not established to fabricate documents on Allied war crimes: its records are genuine; its investigations were carried out methodically, in a judicial manner". |
| De Zayas does point out, however, that the Soviets conducted the first war crimes trials against members of the German armed forces when three soldiers captured at Stalingrad were hanged in 1943, after being found "guilty" of liquidating Soviet citizens in specially constructed gas vans. |
| LembergNKWEmassacres (5119 words) |
| Of course the footnotes in the original de Zayas book provide a much fuller account than is available below, and the other material in the de Zayas book is so rare, and of such interest, as to make the book a valuable acquisition to one's library. |
| Also of interest is de Zayas coverage, not reproduced on the Ukrainian Archive, of NKDV crimes throughout Ukraine and Eastern Europe that were contemporaneous with the Lviv Massacre, which coverage appears in de Zayas chapter 19 "Soviet Crimes Against Non-Germans". |
| Alfred M. de Zayas is an American lawyer and graduate of the Harvard Law School. |
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