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Jardim, Tomaz
The Mauthausen Trial, 12/2011Book Chapter
As Chief Prosecutor William Denson put the final touches on the statement he would present to the court on the first morning of the Mauthausen trial, he had every reason to feel confident. Less than four months earlier, he had achieved a 100 percent rate of conviction in the first Dachau concentration camp trial, before a similar military government court. Denson’s use of the innovative charge of “participating in a common design to commit war crimes” had therefore already proved to be highly effective in prosecuting the large groups of defendants chosen for the mass-atrocity parent cases. Further, American military
