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Cecelia Goetz, Woman at Nuremberg

Cecelia Goetz, Woman at Nuremberg <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Among the creators of international criminal law were the many women who participated in the post-World War II trials of former Nazis and Nazi collaborators. This essay profiles one of those women: Cecelia Goetz, a thirty-year-old American who was the only woman to deliver an opening statement at Nuremberg. The essay not only details how and why Goetz became a prosecutor in the Krupp trial, but also relates a life story marked by many "first women" events, on law review, at the U.S. Department of Justice, and, after Nuremberg, in the federal judiciary.</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Criminal Law Review Brill

Cecelia Goetz, Woman at Nuremberg

Amann, Diane Marie
International Criminal Law Review , Volume 11 (3): 607 – Jan 1, 2011
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Brill
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© 2011 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1567-536X
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1571-8123
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10.1163/157181211X576456
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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Among the creators of international criminal law were the many women who participated in the post-World War II trials of former Nazis and Nazi collaborators. This essay profiles one of those women: Cecelia Goetz, a thirty-year-old American who was the only woman to deliver an opening statement at Nuremberg. The essay not only details how and why Goetz became a prosecutor in the Krupp trial, but also relates a life story marked by many "first women" events, on law review, at the U.S. Department of Justice, and, after Nuremberg, in the federal judiciary.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

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International Criminal Law Review – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2011

Keywords: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW; WOMEN; CECELIA GOETZ; CRIME OF AGGRESSION; NUREMBERG TRIALS; WORLD WAR II; COLD WAR

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