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Title Hitler's first victims : the quest for justice / Timothy W. Ryback.
Author Ryback, Timothy W, author.
Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
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Location Call No. Status
 Alafaya  341.69 RYB    Checked Out
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  341.69 RYB    Check Shelves
 Windermere  341.69 RYB    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description x, 273 pages ; illustrations ; 22 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-257) and index.
Contents Prelude to justice -- Crimes of the spring -- Late afternoon news -- Wintersberger -- Witness to atrocity -- The state of Bavaria -- Rumors from the Würm Mill Woods -- The utility of atrocity -- Steinbrenner unleashed -- The Gumbel report -- Law and disorder -- A realm unto itself -- Evidence of evil -- Presidential powers -- Death sentence -- Good faith agreements -- Rules of law -- Epilogue : the Hartinger conviction -- Appendix : Hartinger's registers.
Summary Traces the work of German prosecutor Josef Hartinger to find justice for the first victims of the Holocaust, who died in 1933, as a state detention center for political prisoners turned into the Dachau concentration camp.
Subject Hartinger, Josef, 1883-1984.
Public prosecutors -- Germany -- Biography.
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946 -- Sources.
Special prosecutors -- United States -- History.
Governmental investigations -- United States -- History.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
National socialism -- Germany -- History.
ISBN 0385352913 : $26.95
9780385352918