Justice for War Criminals - Bryant University.pdf

Justice for War Criminals: The Trials of Nazi Concentration Camp Guards at Dachau The Honors Program Senior Capstone Project Student’s Name: Jarrid Trudeau Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Michael Bryant April 2013 Justice for War Criminals: The Trials of Nazi Concentration Camp Guards at Dachau Senior Capstone Project for Jarrid Trudeau Table of Contents Foreword……… ………………………………………………………... Page 3 Abstract…………………………………………………………………. Page 4 Introduction...…………………………………….……………………... Page 5 The Trials………..……………………………………………….. Page 7 Criticism of the Trials..…………..………………………………. Page 10 The Defense’s Strategy.. …………..……………………………... Page 15 The Influence of International Law …..…………………………... Page 18 The Influence of Military Law…..……………………………. Page 24 Conclusions……………………………..………………………... Page 27 Literature Review...……………………………………………………... Page 30 2 Justice for War Criminals: The Trials of Nazi Concentration Camp Guards at Dachau Senior Capstone Project for Jarrid Trudeau Foreword I am writing this paper for my grandfather, Ararad Buzdigian, and for his father Elias. My grandfather always told me the stories of his ethnic Armenian father and grandfather who, against all odds, were able to escape the Armenian genocide and start a life in America. The horrors of genocide cost Armenia nearly 1 million sons and daughters and, after asking my grandfather what being Armenian was, I learned how close I came to never getting the opportunity to exist. My grandfather volunteered to serve in WW2 and acted as a forward scout. He returned home, started a family, and lived to his eighties in St. Petersburg, Florida. His