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- The International Criminal Responsibility of War’s Funders and Profiteers
- The International Criminal Responsibility of War’s Funders and Profiteers
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Financiers and Profiteers after World War II
- 1 Economic Aggression
- 2 Forced Labour and Norwegian War Profiteers in the Legal Purges after World War II
- 3 Economic Protectionism
- Part II Arms Fairs and ‘Flying Money’
- Part III Developing the Available Law
- Part IV Where Should the Buck Stop?
- Part V Criminal Accountability and Beyond
- Part VI Discovering and Recovering the Profits of War
- Index
1 - Economic Aggression
A Soviet Concept
from Part I - Financiers and Profiteers after World War II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
- The International Criminal Responsibility of War’s Funders and Profiteers
- The International Criminal Responsibility of War’s Funders and Profiteers
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Financiers and Profiteers after World War II
- 1 Economic Aggression
- 2 Forced Labour and Norwegian War Profiteers in the Legal Purges after World War II
- 3 Economic Protectionism
- Part II Arms Fairs and ‘Flying Money’
- Part III Developing the Available Law
- Part IV Where Should the Buck Stop?
- Part V Criminal Accountability and Beyond
- Part VI Discovering and Recovering the Profits of War
- Index
Summary
At the end of the war in Europe, the Allies wished to prosecute at Nuremberg some of the financiers and industrialists who had rearmed Germany and bankrolled the Nazi regime. But how could the actions of the German magnates be distinguished from those of their Allied equivalents? And at what point did legitimate profit-making, the object of every capitalist, turn into criminal profiteering, the subject of criminal proceedings? This question was never properly answered, but it is not surprising that the most active proponents of the idea of trying individuals for economic aggression hailed not from the capitalist world, but from the USSR.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020