Introduction
1: The Birth of an Idea
2: The Silence on the Holocaust
3: Intervention and Opportunism
4: The Red Cross in Crisis
5: Between Geneva and Nuremberg
6: The ICRC and Aid Politics in Ruins
7: The Humanitarians and the Nazis
8: A Window of Opportunity
9: Towards the Geneva Conventions
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Gerald Steinacher is an Associate Professor of History and the Hymen Rosenberg Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of numerous publications on German and Italian twentieth-century history, most recently Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice (2010), also published by Oxford University Press, which was awarded a National Jewish Book Award by the Jewish Book Council in 2011.
Humanitarians at War presents a compelling picture of how the
policy of sovereign states and those of a private organization
exerted a reciprocal influence on life-and-death decisions about
humanitarian aid provision and international law.
*Kimberley A. Lowe, H-Net Reviews*
Mr. Steinacher... is an excellent historian with a good nose for
archives... [He] excels at toppling individuals from undeserved
moral pedestals.
*Samuel Moyn, Wall Street Journal Europe*
Riveting ... An important book that, for the first time, greatly
details how the ICRC operated, especially during and after World
War II.
*Library Journal*
The author has produced an important and fascinating work ...
Steinacher has laid before us an impressive portrayal of the
activities of the Red Cross during the first half of the twentieth
century. The discussion is not merely descriptive in nature; it
raises serious questions about the organization's modes of
operation, espeically those of its leadership. It is a welcome
addition to the literature on this topic. I am convinced that
students, scholars, and other readers will find it compelling.
*Zohar Segev, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs*
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