
The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 20)
Documentary Evidence, War Crimes Testimony, and the Foundations of International Criminal LawBy International Military TribunalLength30h 31m
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The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (Vol. 20) presents a crucial segment of the official record of the International Military Tribunal's prosecution of the principal German war criminals. As a documentary text, it preserves courtroom arguments, evidentiary exchanges, judicial rulings, and the procedural language through which unprecedented charges—including crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity—were legally articulated. Its style is necessarily formal and forensic: rather than offering retrospective narrative, it allows testimony, documents, and competing interpretations to disclose the mechanisms of Nazi aggression and persecution. Situated at the intersection of legal history, political theory, and Holocaust studies, the volume illuminates the emergence of international criminal jurisprudence after the Second World War. The International Military Tribunal was created by the Allied powers to establish a common judicial response to the devastation of Nazi rule. Its proceedings arose from the conviction that state officials could be held individually accountable under international law, a principle that challenged traditional assumptions about sovereignty and obedience to governmental authority. The tribunal's collective authorship reflects its multinational composition and its institutional effort to transform wartime documentation into a reasoned, public legal judgment. The volume therefore records not only historical events but also the intellectual and juridical labor required to name and prosecute them. This volume is indispensable for readers seeking primary evidence about Nuremberg and the foundations of modern international criminal law. Scholars, students, legal practitioners, and historians of the Holocaust will value its precision and immediacy, while general readers will find in it a sobering account of how law confronted organized state violence. It is best read patiently, as both an archival source and a landmark in the continuing debate over justice, responsibility, and human rights.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length30 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 20, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Sniper & Counter Sniper Tactics - Official U.S. Army Handbooks
2PREFACE
3One-Hundred Ninetieth Day Tuesday, 30 July 1946
4Morning Session
5Afternoon Session
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6ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIRST DAY, Wednesday, 31 July 1946
7Morning Session
8Afternoon Session
9ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-SECOND DAY, Thursday, 1 August 1946
10Morning Session
11Afternoon Session
12ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-THIRD DAY, Friday, 2 August 1946
13Morning Session
14Afternoon Session
15ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-FOURTH DAY, Saturday, 3 August 1946: Morning Session
16ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIFTH DAY, Monday, 5 August 1946
17Morning Session
18Afternoon Session
19ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIXTH DAY, Tuesday, 6 August 1946
20Morning Session
21Afternoon Session
22ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-SEVENTH DAY, Wednesday, 7 August 1946
23Morning Session
24Afternoon Session
25ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHTH DAY, Thursday, 8 August 1946: Morning Session
26ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINTH DAY, Friday, 9 August 1946
27Morning Session
28Afternoon Session
29TWO HUNDRETH DAY, Saturday, 10 August 1946: Morning Session