
The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 18)
Documentary Evidence, War Crimes Prosecution, and the Foundations of International Criminal LawBy International Military TribunalLength27h 31m
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The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 18) preserves a substantial segment of the official record of the International Military Tribunal convened at Nuremberg after the Second World War. Through courtroom exchanges, documentary exhibits, witness testimony, legal argument, and judicial rulings, the volume reveals how the prosecution established a case concerning aggressive war, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the organized machinery of Nazi rule. Its style is necessarily documentary rather than literary: formal, cumulative, multilingual in origin, and shaped by the forensic conventions of an unprecedented international trial. Read within the contexts of postwar justice, international law, and modern documentary history, the proceedings illuminate both the evidentiary force and the procedural difficulties of prosecuting state crime. The authorial identity here belongs to the Tribunal itself, representing the collective work of the Allied judges, prosecutors, counsel, interpreters, court officials, and witnesses whose contributions generated the record. The volume emerged from the urgent postwar effort to document responsibility for unparalleled destruction while articulating legal principles capable of addressing leaders and institutions, not merely individual battlefield acts. It therefore reflects the era's confrontation with sovereignty, command responsibility, conspiracy, and the limits of law in the aftermath of genocide and total war. This volume is indispensable for readers studying the origins of international criminal law, the history of the Holocaust and World War II, or the development of evidentiary and prosecutorial practice. Researchers will value its primary-source authority, while general readers will find in it a sobering account of justice struggling to give precise legal form to overwhelming historical crimes.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length27 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 20, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 19)
2PREFACE
3ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOURTH DAY, Tuesday, 9 July 1946
4Morning Session (pt. 1)
5Morning Session (pt. 2)
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6Afternoon Session
7ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIFTH DAY, Wednesday, 10 July 1946: Morning Session
8ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIXTH DAY, Thursday, 11 July 1946
9Morning Session
10Afternoon Session
11ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVENTH DAY, Friday, 12 July 1946
12Morning Session
13Afternoon Session
14ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-EIGHTH DAY, Monday, 15 July 1946
15Morning Session
16Afternoon Session
17ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-NINTH DAY, Tuesday, 16 July 1946
18Morning Session
19Afternoon Session
20ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTIETH DAY, Wednesday, 17 July 1946: Morning Session
21ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FIRST DAY, Thursday, 18 July 1946
22Morning Session
23Afternoon Session