Table of Contents

Introduction
1: The Birth of an Idea
2: The Silence on the Holocaust
3: Intervention and Opportunism
4: The Red Cross in Crisis
5: Between Geneva and Nuremberg
6: The ICRC and Aid Politics in Ruins
7: The Humanitarians and the Nazis
8: A Window of Opportunity
9: Towards the Geneva Conventions
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Index

About the Author

Gerald Steinacher is an Associate Professor of History and the Hymen Rosenberg Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of numerous publications on German and Italian twentieth-century history, most recently Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice (2010), also published by Oxford University Press, which was awarded a National Jewish Book Award by the Jewish Book Council in 2011.

Reviews

Humanitarians at War presents a compelling picture of how the policy of sovereign states and those of a private organization exerted a reciprocal influence on life-and-death decisions about humanitarian aid provision and international law.
*Kimberley A. Lowe, H-Net Reviews*

Mr. Steinacher... is an excellent historian with a good nose for archives... [He] excels at toppling individuals from undeserved moral pedestals.
*Samuel Moyn, Wall Street Journal Europe*

Riveting ... An important book that, for the first time, greatly details how the ICRC operated, especially during and after World War II.
*Library Journal*

The author has produced an important and fascinating work ... Steinacher has laid before us an impressive portrayal of the activities of the Red Cross during the first half of the twentieth century. The discussion is not merely descriptive in nature; it raises serious questions about the organization's modes of operation, espeically those of its leadership. It is a welcome addition to the literature on this topic. I am convinced that students, scholars, and other readers will find it compelling.
*Zohar Segev, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs*