Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
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Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (b. 1947) is a retired senior lawyer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, former Secretary of the UN Human Rights Committee and former Chief of Petitions, visiting professor of law at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales.
The Cuban-born American researcher and historian has published work has dealt with German refugee matters during and after World War II, a rather unpopular area.
As of 2004, he is Secretary General of the International PEN in Geneva.
Works
- The German Expellees Macmillan 1993, with a preface by Professor Charles M. Barber, issued in a revised and enlarged paperback edition under the title A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944-1950, St. Martin's Press, 1994, trade paperback, 179 pages, ISBN 0312121598
- Walter Rabus and Alfred M. De Zayas, Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, 1939-1945, University of Nebraska Press, 1989, trade paperback, ISBN 0803299087
- Nemesis at Potsdam: The Expulsion of the Germans from the East, Brompton Books Corp, 1989, paperback, 270 pages, ISBN 0803299079
- Eva Krutein, preface by Adela Amador, introduction? by Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, Eva's War: A True Story of Survival, Amador Publishers (http://www.amadorbooks.com/), 1990, trade paperback, 253 pages, ISBN 0938513087. Story of a German refugee from Danzig at the end of World War II.
- Alfred-Maurice De Zayas, translated by John H. Koehler, The German Expellees: Victims in War and Peace, Saint Martin's Press (Palgrave Macmillan?), 1993, hardcover, 177 pages, ISBN 0312090978
- Alfred M. De Zayas, Nemesis at Potsdam: The Anglo-Americans and the Expulsion of the Germans. Revised edition, Picton Press (http://www.pictonpress.com/catalog/index.htm), 1998, trade paperback, 320 pages, ISBN 0897253604
- Heimatrecht ist Menschenrecht, published by Universitas in Munich 2001.
- International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms, co-editor with Gudmundur Alfredsson and Bertram Ramcharan , Kluwer, The Hague, 2001.
External links
- http://www.3sat.de/3sat.php?http://www.3sat.de/neunzehn/gast/43622/ Professional biography (in German)
- http://www.alfreddezayas.com Alfred de Zayas -- His website containing many of his articles, including the Douglas McK Brown lecture at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, on the issue of the Guantanamo Naval Base, 37 U.B.C. Law Review, 277-341 (2004) as well as more than 100 translations of Rainer Maria Rilke into English and Spanish.