
The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 3)
Courtroom Evidence, Crimes Against Humanity, and the Birth of Modern International Criminal LawBy International Military TribunalLength20h 37m
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The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 3) presents a further documentary installment of the International Military Tribunal's prosecution of the principal German war criminals after the Second World War. Preserving courtroom exchanges, evidentiary submissions, witness testimony, judicial rulings, and the arguments of prosecution and defense, the volume reveals how unprecedented charges—crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity—were translated into legal procedure. Its style is necessarily forensic rather than literary: precise, adversarial, cumulative, and shaped by the formal rhetoric of an international courtroom. As both a historical source and a foundational text in modern international criminal law, it belongs to the documentary tradition of war testimony and institutional record-keeping, while illuminating the tensions between legal universality, national sovereignty, and retrospective justice. The author, designated collectively as the International Military Tribunal, was the multinational court established by the Allied powers in 1945. Its judges and prosecutors represented the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union, bringing to the proceedings distinct legal traditions and political experiences of the war. The Tribunal's work emerged from the urgent effort to document Nazi aggression and atrocity while creating a principled basis for individual accountability beyond ordinary domestic jurisdiction. This volume is indispensable for readers seeking more than a simplified narrative of Nuremberg. Scholars of legal history, genocide studies, diplomacy, and twentieth-century political culture will value its unfiltered evidentiary texture, while students and general readers will find in it a rigorous means of understanding how international justice was argued, contested, and institutionalized.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length20 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 5)
2Nuremberg Trials: Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (V. 3)
3PREFACE
4TENTH DAY Saturday, 1 December 1945: Morning Session
5ELEVENTH DAY Monday, 3 December 1945
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6Morning Session
7Afternoon Session
8TWELFTH DAY Tuesday, 4 December 1945
9Morning Session
10Afternoon Session
11THIRTEENTH DAY Wednesday, 5 December 1945
12Morning Session
13Afternoon Session
14FOURTEENTH DAY Thursday, 6 December 1945
15Morning Session
16Afternoon Session
17FIFTEENTH DAY Friday, 7 December 1945
18Morning Session
19Afternoon Session
20SIXTEENTH DAY Monday, 10 December 1945
21Morning Session
22Afternoon Session
23SEVENTEENTH DAY Tuesday, 11 December 1945
24Morning Session
25Afternoon Session
26EIGHTEENTH DAY Wednesday, 12 December 1945
27Morning Session
28Afternoon Session
29NINETEENTH DAY Thursday, 13 December 1945
30Morning Session
31Afternoon Session
32TWENTIETH DAY Friday, 14 December 1945
33Morning Session
34Afternoon Session