These original essays show how the US government repeatedly aided certain regimes as they planned and then carried out crimes against humanity and genocide. What makes the collection unique-and chilling-is the inclusion of declassified documents generated by the US government at the time: memoranda, telegrams, letters, talking points, cables, discussion papers, and situation reports. In his introduction, Totten offers a critical assessment of US foreign policy as it pertains to genocide and crimes against humanity, and discusses the differences between those two terms. In the chapters that follow, each author presents a detailed analysis of a particular case of crimes against humanity or genocide by a foreign government against its own citizens, and discusses why and how the United States government was complicit.这些原创文章展示了美国政府是如何在某些政权策划、实施反人类罪和种族灭绝罪时，一再援助他们的。使这本藏书独特而令人毛骨悚然的是，其中包括了美国政府当时生成的解密文件：备忘录、电报、信件、谈话要点、电报、讨论文件和情况报告。在他的介绍中，托滕提供了美国外交政策的批判性评估，因为它涉及到种族灭绝和危害人类罪，并讨论了这两个术语之间的差异。在接下来的章节中，每一位作者都详细分析了一个外国政府对本国公民犯下的危害人类罪或灭绝种族罪的具体案件，并讨论了美国政府为什么和如何同谋。