The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V.1)

Foundations of Postwar Justice, Nazi War Crimes, and the Birth of International Criminal LawBy International Military Tribunal

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The first volume of *The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings* preserves the foundational record of the International Military Tribunal convened at Nuremberg after the Second World War. It documents the court's opening, jurisdictional arguments, indictments, procedural decisions, and the prosecution's initial presentation of evidence concerning crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Its style is necessarily formal and documentary: legal submissions, testimony, translations, and judicial exchanges unfold with a precision that contrasts sharply with the enormity of the crimes described. Read in its literary and historical context, the volume is both an indispensable primary source and a defining text in the emergence of modern international criminal law, revealing how law sought to articulate individual responsibility for state-sponsored atrocity. The author, designated collectively as the International Military Tribunal, represents the unprecedented judicial coalition established by the Allied powers in 1945. The tribunal's work arose from the political, moral, and legal demands of a devastated Europe and from the determination that leading architects of Nazi aggression should be publicly confronted through evidence and reasoned judgment. This institutional authorship gives the volume unusual authority while also inviting careful attention to its postwar context, evidentiary frameworks, and contested legal innovations. This volume is strongly recommended to readers of history, jurisprudence, political theory, and human-rights studies. It rewards sustained reading as a courtroom record, a study in legal statecraft, and an enduring meditation on accountability after catastrophe.

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GenrePolitics and Government

Length16 hrs 29 mins

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Publish dateNov 20, 2020

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19/11 THROUGH THE LENS (250 Pictures of the Tragedy)

2Nuremberg Trials: Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (V. 1)

3PREFACE

4MEMBERS AND ALTERNATE MEMBERS OF THE TRIBUNAL

5OFFICIALS OF THE GENERAL SECRETARIAT

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6PROSECUTION COUNSEL1

7DEFENDANTS AND DEFENSE COUNSEL

8LONDON AGREEMENT OF 8 AUGUST 1945

9CHARTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL

10PROTOCOL RECTIFYING DISCREPANCY IN TEXT OF CHARTER

11RULES OF PROCEDURE (Adopted 29 October 1945)

12MINUTES OF THE OPENING SESSION OF THE TRIBUNAL, AT BERLIN, 18 OCTOBER 1945

13INDICTMENT13 (pt. 1)

14INDICTMENT13 (pt. 2)

15MOTION OF THE PROSECUTION FOR CORRECTING DISCREPANCIES IN THE INDICTMENT14

16PLEAS OF INDIVIDUAL DEFENDANTS

17LETTER OF RESERVATION BY THE UNITED STATES PROSECUTOR IN REGARD TO WORDING OF THE INDICTMENT

18ORDER OF THE TRIBUNAL REGARDING NOTICE TO INDIVIDUAL DEFENDANTS

19ORDER OF THE TRIBUNAL REGARDING NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS

20ORDER OF THE TRIBUNAL REGARDING NOTICE TO DEFENDANT BORMANN

21CERTIFICATES OF COMPLIANCE WITH ORDERS OF THE TRIBUNAL REGARDING NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS AND TO DEFENDANT BORMANN

22CERTIFICATES OF SERVICE ON INDIVIDUAL DEFENDANTS

23CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE ON DEFENDANT GUSTAV KRUPP VON BOHLEN

24ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SERVICE

25MOTION ON BEHALF OF DEFENDANT GUSTAV KRUPP VON BOHLEN FOR POSTPONEMENT OF THE TRIAL AS TO HIM

26REPORT OF MEDICAL COMMISSION APPOINTED TO EXAMINE DEFENDANT GUSTAV KRUPP VON BOHLEN15

27ANSWER OF THE UNITED STATES PROSECUTION TO THE MOTION ON BEHALF OF DEFENDANT GUSTAV KRUPP VON BOHLEN

28MEMORANDUM OF THE BRITISH PROSECUTION ON THE MOTION ON BEHALF OF DEFENDANT GUSTAV KRUPP VON BOHLEN

29MEMORANDUM OF THE FRENCH PROSECUTION ON THE MOTION ON BEHALF OF DEFENDANT GUSTAV KRUPP VON BOHLEN

30SUPPLEMENTAL MEMORANDUM OF THE FRENCH PROSECUTION

31ORDER OF THE TRIBUNAL GRANTING POSTPONEMENT OF PROCEEDINGS AGAINST GUSTAV KRUPP VON BOHLEN

32SUPPLEMENTARY STATEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES PROSECUTION

33MOTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF CHIEF PROSECUTORS TO AMEND THE INDICTMENT BY ADDING THE NAME OF ALFRIED KRUPP VON BOHLEN AS A DEFENDANT

34ORDER OF THE TRIBUNAL REJECTING THE MOTION TO AMEND THE INDICTMENT BY ADDING THE NAME OF ALFRIED KRUPP VON BOHLEN AS A DEFENDANT

35MEMORANDUM OF THE FRENCH PROSECUTION ON THE ORDER OF THE TRIBUNAL REJECTING THE MOTION TO AMEND THE INDICTMENT

36MOTION ON BEHALF OF DEFENDANT STREICHER FOR POSTPONEMENT OF THE TRIAL AS TO HIM16

37MEMORANDUM OF THE UNITED STATES PROSECUTION ON THE MOTION ON BEHALF OF DEFENDANT STREICHER

38MEMORANDUM OF THE BRITISH PROSECUTION ON THE MOTION ON BEHALF OF DEFENDANT STREICHER

39MOTION OF THE SOVIET PROSECUTION FOR A PSYCHIATRIC EXAMINATION OF DEFENDANT STREICHER

40ORDER OF THE TRIBUNAL REGARDING A PSYCHIATRIC EXAMINATION OF DEFENDANT STREICHER

41REPORT OF EXAMINATION OF DEFENDANT STREICHER

42MOTION ON BEHALF OF DEFENDANT HESS FOR AN EXAMINATION BY A NEUTRAL EXPERT WITH REFERENCE TO HIS MENTAL COMPETENCE AND CAPACITY TO STAND TRIAL

43ORDER OF THE TRIBUNAL REJECTING THE MOTION ON BEHALF OF DEFENDANT HESS, AND DESIGNATING A COMMISSION TO EXAMINE DEFENDANT HESS WITH REFERENCE TO HIS MENTAL COMPETENCE AND CAPACITY TO STAND TRIAL

44REPORT OF COMMISSION TO EXAMINE DEFENDANT HESS17

45REPORT OF PRISON PSYCHOLOGIST ON MENTAL COMPETENCE OF DEFENDANT HESS18

46MOTION ADOPTED BY ALL DEFENSE COUNSEL19

47JUDGMENT (pt. 1)

48JUDGMENT (pt. 2)

49JUDGMENT (pt. 3)

50JUDGMENT (pt. 4)