- Collection:
- Scholarly Works
- Title:
- Inge Viermetz, Woman Acquitted at Nuremberg
- Creator:
- Marie Amann, Diane
- Date of Original:
- 2025-04-01
- Subject:
- Law--History
Law--Study and teaching - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Inge Viermetz -- Nuremberg -- International Tribunals -- International Criminal Law -- War Tribunals -- War Crimes -- International Law -- Human Rights Law -- Crimes Against Humanity -- World War II -- Holocaust and Genocide Studies -- Human Rights Law -- International Humanitarian Law -- International Law -- International Relations -- Legal History -- Military, War, and Peace -- Women's History
Conventional narratives tend to represent the post-World War II international criminal proceedings as a men’s project, thus obscuring the many women who participated, as lawyers, journalists, analysts, interpreters, witnesses, and defendants. Indeed, two women stood trial before Nuremberg Military Tribunals. This article examines the case of the only woman found not-guilty: Inge Viermetz, who had been an administrator at Lebensborn, the Nazi SS adoption and placement agency. The article outlines the prosecution’s child-taking case against Viermetz, as well as her successful gendered self-portrayal as a conventionally feminine caregiver. With references to Professor Megan A. Fairlie, at whose memorial symposium it was presented, the article concludes by considering contemporary implications of this acquittal at Nuremberg. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/1715
- Holding Institution:
- Alexander Campbell King Law Library
- Rights:
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