A peculiar crusade : Willis M. Everett and the Malmedy massacre / James J. Weingartner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weingartner, James J., 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Everett, Willis Mead, 1900-1960.

Everett, Willis Mead.

Lawyers--United States--Biography.

Lawyers.

Malmedy Massacre, 1944-1945.

War crime trials--Germany.

War crime trials.

World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the wake of World War II, 74 members of the Nazi SS were accused of a war crime--soon to be known as the Malmedy Massacre--in which a large number of American prisoners of war were murdered during the Battle of the Bulge. All of the German defendants were found guilty and more than half were sentenced to death. Yet none was executed and, a decade later, all had been released from prison. This outcome resulted primarily from the dogged efforts of Willis M. Everett, Jr., a prominent Atlanta attorney who jeopardized his status as a member of the social elite to defend with great zeal

Contents:

Contents; Preface; l The Everett's of Atlanta; 2 The Internal Enemy; 3 The World beyond Atlanta; 4 Under the Lights; 5 Of the Particulars and Charge, Guilty; 6 Death by Hanging; 7 A Troublesome Conscience; 8 An Old-Fashioned Sense of Justice; 9 "The Lord Has Given Me Strength to Continue"; 10 A Michael Kohlhaas in Atlanta; Epilogue; Notes; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814784730

0814784739

9780814795125

0814795129

OCLC:

779828430