Humanitarians at War: The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust

by Gerald Steinacher

Book Overview

From the brink of dissolution in 1945 to the triumph of the Geneva Conventions in 1949, via the Nuremberg Trials, runaway Nazis, and furious battles with communist critics on the eve of the Cold War, this is the intriguing and remarkable story of the International Red Cross - and how it survived its ambiguous relationship with the Nazis during the Second World War.

The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198705174
• ISBN13: 9780198705178
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"