Cambridge University Press has published In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice (2022), by Michael Fleming (Polish University Abroad, London). A description from the Press:
In the midst of the Second World War, the Allies acknowledged Germany's
ongoing programme of extermination. In the Shadow of the Holocaust
examines the struggle to attain post-war justice and prosecution.
Focusing on Poland's engagement with the United Nations War Crimes
Commission, it analyses the different ways that the Polish Government in
Exile (based in London from 1940) agitated for an Allied response to
German atrocities. Michael Fleming shows that jurists associated with
the Government in Exile made significant contributions to legal debates
on war crimes and, along with others, paid attention to German crimes
against Jews. By exploring the relationship between the UNWCC and the
Polish War Crimes Office under the authority of the Polish Government in
Exile and later, from the summer of 1945, the Polish Government in
Warsaw, Fleming provides a new lens through which to examine the early
stages of the Cold War.
A sample of advance praise:
"This pathbreaking book sheds
important new light on post-war attempts to prosecute Nazi war criminals
and collaborators through an analysis of the participation in the
United Nations’ War Crimes Commission of representatives of the Polish
government, first that established in the west after the Polish defeat
and then by the pro-communist government established by the Soviets. It
is essential reading for all those interested in the problem of how to
prosecute genocide and crimes against humanity." -- Antony Polonsky
More information is available here. (h/t New Books Network)
-- Karen Tani
