Erika Mann

Derided as ‘feminists’: the unsung witnesses of the Nuremberg trials

18 April 2026 9:00 am

Of particular note was the lawyer Harriet Zetterberg, who compiled the case against Hans Frank, and Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, the first concentration camp survivor to testify

The tedium of covering ‘the greatest trial in history’

14 September 2024 9:00 am

The reporters who descended on Nuremberg in October 1945 included some of the century’s greatest writers. But the protracted proceedings would test their patience – and integrity

Happy early days: Erika and Klaus in 1927

The Mann who knew everyone

27 February 2016 9:00 am

Thomas Mann, despite strong homosexual emotions, had six children. The two eldest, Erika and Klaus, born in 1905 and 1906…