JUSTICE AT DACHAU(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　The world remembers Nuremberg, where a handful of Nazi
policymakers were brought to justice, but nearly forgotten are the
proceedings at Dachau, where hundreds of Nazi guards, officers, and
doctors stood trial for personally taking part in the torture and
execution of prisoners inside the Dachau, Mauthausen, Flossenburg,
and Buchenwald concentration camps. In Justice at Dachau, M.
Greene, maker of the award winning documentary film Witness: Voices
from the Holocaust, recreates the Dachau trials and reveals the
dramatic story of William Denson, a soft-spoken young lawyer from
Alabama whisked from teaching law at West Point to leading the
prosecution in the largest series of Nazi trials in history.
　　In a makeshift courtroom set up inside Hitler’s first
concentration camp, Denson was charged with building a team from
lawyers who had no background in war crimes and determining charges
for crimes that courts had never before confronted. Among the
accused were Dr. Klaus Schilling, responsible for hundreds of
deaths in his “research” for a cure for malaria; Edwin
Katzen-Ellenbogen, a Harvard psychologist turned Gestapo informant;
and one of history’s most notorious female war criminals, Ilse
Koch, “Bitch of Buchenwald,” whose penchant for tattooed skins and
human bone lamps made headlines worldwide.
　　Denson, just thirty-two years old, with one criminal trial to his
name, led a brilliant and successful prosecution, but nearly two
years of exposure to such horrors took its toll. His wife divorced
him, his weight dropped to 116 pounds, and he collapsed from
exhaustion. Worst of all was the pressure from his army superiors
to bring the trials to a rapid end when their agenda shifted away
from punishing Nazis to winning the Germans’ support in the
emerging Cold War. Denson persevered, determined to create a
careful record of responsibility for the crimes of the Holocaust.
When, in a final shocking twist, the United States used clandestine
reversals and commutation of sentences to set free those found
guilty at Dachau, Denson risked his army career to try to prevent
justice from being undone.