
The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 21)
Courtroom Testimony, Legal Reasoning, and the Foundations of International Criminal LawBy International Military TribunalLength32h 6m
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The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 21) preserves a major portion of the International Military Tribunal's official record, bringing together the courtroom arguments, documentary evidence, witness testimony, and judicial exchanges through which the prosecution of Nazi Germany was publicly constructed. More than a narrative of events, the volume reveals the developing grammar of international criminal law: the definition of aggressive war, responsibility for atrocities committed by state authority, and the difficult relationship between legal procedure and historical judgment. Its style is necessarily formal and documentary, yet the cumulative effect is profoundly dramatic, as competing interpretations of guilt, sovereignty, obedience, and justice are tested under adversarial scrutiny. Situated within the postwar tradition of political trials and emerging human-rights jurisprudence, the proceedings remain indispensable primary literature for understanding the twentieth century's most consequential legal reckoning. The International Military Tribunal was created by the Allied powers after the defeat of Nazi Germany to prosecute leading political, military, and economic figures for crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Its collective authorship reflects a deliberate international enterprise, shaped by jurists, prosecutors, translators, investigators, and surviving records of the regime's operations. The volume therefore embodies both the immediate moral urgency of 1945 and the Allies' effort to establish principles capable of extending beyond the victors' moment. This volume is recommended to readers of legal history, Holocaust and genocide studies, international relations, and modern European history. Researchers will value its evidentiary precision and procedural detail, while general readers will find in it an unmediated encounter with the language of accountability. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how law attempted to confront state-sponsored criminality.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length32 hrs 6 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
3TWO HUNDRED AND FIRST DAY, Monday, 12 August 1946
4Morning Session
5Afternoon Session
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6TWO HUNDRED AND SECOND DAY, Tuesday, 13 August 1946
7Morning Session
8Afternoon Session
9TWO HUNDRED AND THIRD DAY, Wednesday, 14 August 1946: Morning Session
10TWO HUNDRED AND FOURTH DAY, Thursday, 15 August 1946: Morning Session
11TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTH DAY, Friday, 16 August 1946
12Morning Session
13Afternoon Session
14TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTH DAY, Monday, 19 August 1946: Morning Session
15TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTH DAY, Tuesday, 20 August 1946
16Morning Session
17Afternoon Session
18TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTH DAY, Wednesday, 21 August 1946
19Morning Session
20Afternoon Session
21TWO HUNDRED AND NINTH DAY, Thursday, 22 August 1946
22Morning Session
23Afternoon Session
24TWO HUNDRED AND TENTH DAY, Friday, 23 August 1946
25Morning Session
26Afternoon Session
27TWO HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH DAY, Monday, 26 August 1946
28Morning Session
29Afternoon Session (pt. 1)
30Afternoon Session (pt. 2)