James J. Weingartner

James J. Weingartner is professor emeritus of history at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He is a specialist in German history and the history of Nazism. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Selected publications

Hitler's Guard: The Story of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler 1933-1945. Southern Illinois University Press, 1975. Crossroads of Death: The Story of the Malmedy Massacre and Trial. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1979.

"Trophies of War: U.S. Troops and the Mutilation of Japanese War Dead, 1941-1945", Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 53–67. DOI: 10.2307/3640788A Peculiar Crusade: Willis M.Everett and the Malmedy Massacre Trial. New York University Press, 2000. Americans, Germans, and War Crimes Justice: Law, Memory, and "The Good War". Praeger, Santa Barbara, 2011.