I am listening to The Nuremberg Trial via Audible (and NO, this is NOT a sponsored video), written by Ann and John Tusa. Admittedly, I doubt I would read this. That said, I do enjoy listening to it. It’s fascinating material.
Description (from Amazon/Audible):
“Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II. The Nuremberg Trial brilliantly recreates the trial proceedings and offers a reasoned, often profound examination of the processes that created international law. From the whimpering of Kaltenbrunner and Ribbentrop on the stand to the icy coolness of Goering, each participant is vividly drawn.”
Brief History:
“The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies after World War II against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries and other crimes, including the Holocaust.
Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi Germany invaded many countries across Europe, inflicting 27 million deaths in the Soviet Union alone. Proposals for how to punish the defeated Nazi leaders ranged from a show trial (the Soviet Union) to summary execution (the United Kingdom). In mid-1945, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States agreed to convene a joint tribunal with the Nuremberg Charter as its legal instrument. Between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946, the International Military Tribunal (IMT) tried 21 of the most important surviving leaders of Nazi Germany in the political, military, and economic spheres, and 6 German organizations. The purpose of the trial was not just to convict the defendants but also to assemble irrefutable evidence of Nazi crimes, offer a history lesson to the defeated Germans, and delegitimize the traditional German elite.
The IMT focused on the crime of aggression—plotting and waging aggressive war, which the verdict declared “the supreme international crime” because “it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole”.[1] This crime had been invented by Soviet jurist Aron Trainin during the war. Most of the defendants were also charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Twelve further trials were conducted by the United States against lower-level perpetrators, which focused more on the Holocaust. Although controversial at the time for their use of ex post facto law, the trials’ innovation of holding individuals responsible for violations of international law established international criminal law…”-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials
