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27 Liverpool L. Rev. 1 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/lvplr27 and id is 1 raw text is: Liverpool Law Review (2006) 27: 1-3 © Springer 2006 DOI 10.1007/s10991-005-5344-3 MICHAEL SALTER and LORIE CHARLESWORTH* GENOCIDE AND WAR CRIMES TRIALS: PART TWO This is of course the second volume of the Special Edition on Genocide and War Crimes Trials, immediately following the previ- ous edition of this journal (Vol. 26, No. 3). This earlier edition in- cluded studies on the deployment of atrocity film evidence at the Nuremberg trials, plea-bargaining in recent ad hoc UN tribunals and a case study on the differential legal treatment of two Nazi war criminals: SS Karl Wolff and Field Marshall Albert Kesselring. This successor volume complements these earlier studies with arti- cles by Suzanne Ost, Susan Twist, Salter and Charlesworth and Barbara Korth, each of which we discuss in turn. Ost's article is based on extensive archival research that uncov- ered the implications of newly declassified US intelligence files and other sources. These include, relevant trial documents translated from the original German language and, administrative documents and letters sent to the director of the Kaufbeuren psychiatric insti- tution in Bavaria from individuals within the Reich Ministry of the Interior. The topic is one aspect of the extreme form of utilitarian- ism which lay behind the euthanasia programme, and the associ- ated objectification and reification of certain individuals as 'stock' or 'subjects' in order to serve the perceived needs of Nazi German society. The Nazi eugenic programme involved the killing of men- tally and physically sick individuals whom officials from this regime deemed to lack continuing worth. Her account supplements earlier studies on the Nazi's so-called 'Euthanasia' policies. It also draws attention to gender issues, not least the fact that women, as well as men, can be cold, hard killers. Ost brings out new details of the manner in patients of the institution were, from their admission on- wards, redefined as disposable objects. She discusses the difficulties the prosecution's strong evidence posed for the defence case. One * Dr Michael Salter is Professor of Law at the Lancashire Law School, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom; Dr Lorie Charlesworth is a Senior Lecturer at the Law School, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom.

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