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The Clean Wehrmacht: Myths About German War Crimes Then And Now, Narayan J. Saviskas Jr.
The Clean Wehrmacht: Myths About German War Crimes Then And Now, Narayan J. Saviskas Jr.
Honors College Theses
On October 1st, 1946, the Nuremberg high command trails ended. The executions and life sentences of representatives of the German military and political elite were carried out by the Allied powers. At the time, the Soviet Union posed a greater threat than the Germans tried at Nuremberg. Years later, on October 9th, 1950, former officers of the German military gathered in Himmerod Abbey. Together they wrote the Himmerod Memorandum, which laid the foundation of the German rearmament and called for the release of German soldiers (Wehrmacht) and Schutzstaffel (SS) members convicted of war crimes. The Allies, desperate for another line …
Shackles And Servitude: Jails And The Enslaved In Antebellum Savannah, Haley E. Osborne
Shackles And Servitude: Jails And The Enslaved In Antebellum Savannah, Haley E. Osborne
Honors College Theses
My research centers around the use of jails in relation to the African American community in Savannah. I will describe the evolution of the publicly funded jail system and explain how it was used to sustain the institution of slavery.