
The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 11)
Testimony, Evidence, and Legal Accountability for War Crimes and Crimes Against HumanityBy International Military TribunalLength29h 16m
About this audiobook
The eleventh volume of *The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings* preserves a substantial portion of the International Military Tribunal's official record, presenting the legal arguments, evidentiary examinations, documentary submissions, and judicial reasoning through which the prosecution of major Nazi war criminals was constructed and contested. Its style is necessarily documentary rather than literary: formal, adversarial, and exacting, yet rhetorically revealing in the testimony and cross-examination of participants in the Third Reich. Read within the literary and historical context of postwar legal writing, the volume stands as both a primary source and a foundational text in the emergence of modern international criminal law. The International Military Tribunal was the unprecedented judicial body convened by the Allied powers after the Second World War to prosecute leading figures responsible for aggressive war, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Its proceedings arose from the moral and legal crisis produced by Nazi Germany's state-sponsored violence, and from the Allies' effort to establish an authoritative public record rather than rely solely on military reprisal or political condemnation. The tribunal's collective authorship gives the volume institutional weight while also preserving the tensions inherent in prosecuting unprecedented crimes through formal law. This volume is indispensable for readers of history, jurisprudence, political theory, and Holocaust studies. Scholars will value its unedited evidentiary texture and insight into courtroom method; general readers will encounter, with appropriate seriousness, the voices and documents through which responsibility was publicly established. It is best read patiently, as a rigorous record whose enduring significance lies in showing how law attempted to answer catastrophe.
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government
Length29 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 28, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 17)
2ONE HUNDRED AND SECOND DAY (Monday, 8 April 1946)
3Morning Session
4Afternoon Session
5ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD DAY (Tuesday, 9 April 1946)
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6Morning Session
7Afternoon Session
8ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTH DAY (Wednesday, 10 April 1946)
9Morning Session
10Afternoon Session
11ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH DAY (Thursday, 11 April 1946)
12Morning Session
13Afternoon Session
14ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH DAY (Friday, 12 April 1946)
15Morning Session
16Afternoon Session
17ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH DAY (Saturday, 13 April 1946): Morning Session
18ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTH DAY (Monday, 15 April 1946)
19Morning Session
20Afternoon Session
21ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH DAY (Tuesday, 16 April 1946)
22Morning Session
23Afternoon Session
24ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH DAY (Wednesday, 17 April 1946)
25Morning Session
26Afternoon Session