
The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 4)
Courtroom Testimony, War Crimes Evidence, and the Foundations of Modern International Criminal LawBy International Military TribunalLength21h 37m
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The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 4) presents an essential segment of the International Military Tribunal's official record of the prosecution and adjudication of Nazi Germany's principal war criminals. Combining courtroom testimony, documentary exhibits, legal submissions, judicial rulings, and procedural exchanges, the volume preserves the trial's distinctive intersection of criminal law, historical investigation, and political reckoning. Its formal, evidentiary style reflects the Tribunal's effort to transform the unprecedented violence of the Second World War into a coherent judicial narrative, while its detailed exchanges reveal the difficulties of defining aggressive war, crimes against humanity, and individual responsibility within an emerging international legal order. The International Military Tribunal was established by the Allied powers after Germany's defeat in 1945 to conduct the first major international prosecution of state leaders for crimes committed in the name of a government. This institutional authorship is significant: the volume is not a retrospective interpretation but a primary source shaped by judges, prosecutors, defense counsel, witnesses, and the documentary machinery of the proceedings. It therefore records both the Tribunal's legal innovations and the historical consciousness of the postwar world, when accountability, sovereignty, and the prevention of future atrocities became urgent concerns. This volume is recommended to readers of international law, modern European history, political theory, and war-crimes scholarship. Its evidentiary precision makes it indispensable for researchers, while its sustained courtroom drama offers general readers a direct encounter with one of the twentieth century's defining judicial events. Read alongside other volumes, it provides a fuller understanding of how Nuremberg established enduring principles of individual accountability and collective memory.
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government
Length21 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. 9)
2Nuremberg Trials: Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (V. 4)
3PREFACE
4TWENTY-FIRST DAY Monday, 17 December 1945
5Morning Session
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6Afternoon Session
7TWENTY-SECOND DAY Tuesday, 18 December 1945
8Morning Session
9Afternoon Session
10TWENTY-THIRD DAY Wednesday, 19 December 1945
11Morning Session
12Afternoon Session
13TWENTY-FOURTH DAY Thursday, 20 December 1945
14Morning Session
15Afternoon Session
16TWENTY-FIFTH DAY Wednesday, 2 January 1946
17Morning Session
18Afternoon Session
19TWENTY-SIXTH DAY Thursday, 3 January 1946
20Morning Session
21Afternoon Session
22TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY Friday, 4 January 1946
23Morning Session
24Afternoon Session
25TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY Monday, 7 January 1946
26Morning Session
27Afternoon Session
28TWENTY-NINTH DAY Tuesday, 8 January 1946
29Morning Session
30Afternoon Session