CSPAN3 Lectures In History July 31, 2016
Notorious prisoner of work camp in the history of modern warfare. It was a confederate prison for Union Soldiers in the southwest of georgia. We will talk about hanging henry wirz. Wirz was executed for his role for perpetuating, according to the federal government, mistreatment and murder at that camp. He was one of the first individuals in the modern era to be tried for war crimes. Henry wirzs trial in the fall of 1865 set the precedent for more recent war crimes trials, the nuremberg trials of nazi perpetrators after world war ii, the allied prosecutors preparing for those prosecutions in n...