
The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 15)
Courtroom Transcripts, Holocaust Evidence, and the Origins of International Criminal JusticeBy International Military TribunalLength31h 35m
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The fifteenth volume of *The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings* preserves a substantial part of the official record of the International Military Tribunal's prosecution of the principal Nazi leaders. Combining courtroom argument, witness testimony, documentary evidence, judicial interventions, and formal legal reasoning, it reveals how the Tribunal translated the unprecedented scale of Nazi aggression and atrocity into a methodical proceeding. Its style is necessarily documentary rather than literary: cumulative, forensic, and exacting. Yet the volume's rhetorical force lies in the tension between bureaucratic language and the historical realities it records, placing the work within both the tradition of international legal documentation and the postwar effort to establish an authoritative account of criminal responsibility. The International Military Tribunal was constituted by the victorious Allied powers after the Second World War to prosecute major German war criminals. Its proceedings emerged from the urgent political, moral, and legal necessity of responding to aggressive war, crimes against humanity, and violations of the laws and customs of war. This volume therefore reflects not a single authorial consciousness but a collective institutional attempt to create precedent, preserve evidence, and define the relationship between state power and individual accountability. It is indispensable for understanding the origins of modern international criminal law. Scholars of history, law, political theory, and Holocaust studies will find this volume especially rewarding. It should also be read by anyone seeking to understand how societies document mass violence and transform moral condemnation into judicial judgment. Dense but indispensable, it offers primary evidence whose significance continues to shape debates about justice, sovereignty, and human rights.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length31 hrs 35 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 19, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V.10)
2PREFACE
3ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIRST DAY, Wednesday, 29 May 1946
4Morning Session
5Afternoon Session
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6ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SECOND DAY, Thursday, 30 May 1946
7Morning Session
8Afternoon Session
9ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-THIRD DAY, Friday, 31 May 1946
10Morning Session
11Afternoon Session
12ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOURTH DAY, Saturday, 1 June 1946: Morning Session
13ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIFTH DAY, Monday, 3 June 1946
14Morning Session
15Afternoon Session
16ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIXTH DAY, Tuesday, 4 June 1946
17Morning Session
18Afternoon Session
19ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVENTH DAY, Wednesday, 5 June 1946
20Morning Session
21Afternoon Session
22ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHTH DAY, Thursday, 6 June 1946
23Morning Session
24Afternoon Session
25ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINTH DAY, Friday, 7 June 1946
26Morning Session
27Afternoon Session
28ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH DAY, Saturday, 8 June 1946: Morning Session
29ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIRST DAY, Monday, 10 June 1946
30Morning Session
31Afternoon Session