Nuremberg trials
Derided as ‘feminists’: the unsung witnesses of the Nuremberg trials
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
Why Hitler’s suave architect escaped the noose at Nuremberg
Albert Speer was treated leniently because he was softly-spoken, well-dressed and ‘much the most appealing’ of all the defendants, according to Telford Taylor, one of the prosecutors
Mrs Göring is far too sympathetic: Nuremberg reviewed
Nuremberg is one of those films that falls short on everything it wants to be and everything it could be.…
The tedium of covering ‘the greatest trial in history’
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
Was the bombing of Dresden a war crime?
A conversation between Sinclair McKay and A.N. Wilson
Laws that changed the world
Prosecution for genocide or crimes against humanity is now a given in international law. But before the Nuremberg Trials, these two groundbreaking notions didn’t exist. Daniel Hahn describes their origins and inspiration
Plumbing the depths of horror
Concentration camps in Nazi Germany were originally set up in 1933 to terrorise Hitler’s political enemies; as war drew near,…
