Humanitarians at War av Gerald (Associate Professor of History and Hymen Rosenberg Professor of Judaic Studies Associate Professor of History and Hyme

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From the brink of dissolution in 1945 to the triumph of the Geneva Conventions in 1949, via the Nuremberg Trials, runaway Nazis, and furious battles with communist critics on the eve of the Cold War, this is the intriguing and remarkable story of the International Red Cross - and how it survived its ambiguous relationship with the Nazis during the Second World War.The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is one of the world''s oldest, most prominent, and revered aid organizations. But at the end of World War II things could not have looked more different. Under fire for its failure to speak out against the Holocaust or to extend substantial assistance to Jews trapped in Nazi camps across Europe, the ICRC desperately needed to salvage its reputation in order to remain relevant in the post-war world. Indeed, the whole future of Switzerland''s humanitarian flagship looked to hang in the balance at this time. Torn between defending Swiss neutrality and battling Comm