Abstract
Abstract
This chapter extends Chapter 2’s discussion of international law to the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Taking its starting point from an after-dinner speech about the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’, it discusses ‘Law and Literature’ principles of advocacy, particularly those of Sir Norman Birkett, who looked to Shakespeare for the ‘insight, the understanding and the judgment’ that defend ‘the virtue of the bench’. It applies these ideas to USA v Oswald Pohl et al. (1947), one of the Nuremberg ‘Subsequent’ Trials, in which seventeen members of the SS were tried for crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy, and where Shakespearian quotation creates a comic, perhaps even shocking, conviviality between American and German lawyers engaged in the prosecution and defence of Nazi war criminals. It considers the question of Shakespeare’s implication in the ‘culture of forgetting’ that followed the establishment of West Germany in 1949.
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Oxford University PressOxford
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