
The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 7)
Evidence, Testimony, and the Origins of International Criminal LawBy International Military TribunalLength21h 39m
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The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 7) preserves, in authoritative transcript, another substantial portion of the International Military Tribunal's prosecution of the principal German war criminals. Its pages record the formal exchanges of judges, prosecutors, defense counsel, witnesses, and defendants, revealing how documentary evidence, testimony, objections, and judicial rulings were assembled into a coherent account of aggressive war, occupation, persecution, and mass atrocity. The prose is necessarily procedural rather than literary, yet its disciplined rhetoric and carefully staged examination possess considerable dramatic force. As both a legal record and a foundational text in twentieth-century political and juridical history, the volume illuminates the emergence of crimes against humanity and individual responsibility in international law. The "author" is the International Military Tribunal, the unprecedented judicial body established by the Allied powers after the Second World War. Its proceedings arose from the urgent effort to replace summary vengeance with public adjudication and to articulate principles capable of judging state leaders for crimes committed through governmental institutions. The volume therefore reflects not a single authorial voice but the institutional labor of judges, counsel, interpreters, clerks, and surviving witnesses, shaped by the Tribunal's commitment to evidentiary scrutiny and an open historical record. This volume is indispensable for readers studying Nuremberg, the origins of international criminal law, Holocaust and genocide historiography, or the relationship between law and historical memory. It rewards close reading as a primary source, while also offering an unusually direct view of how justice was argued, contested, and publicly constituted after catastrophe.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length21 hrs 39 mins
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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. 7)
3PREFACE
4FIFTY-FIRST DAY Tuesday, 5 February 1946
5Morning Session
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6Afternoon Session
7FIFTY-SECOND DAY Wednesday, 6 February 1946
8Morning Session
9Afternoon Session
10FIFTY-THIRD DAY Thursday, 7 February 1946
11Morning Session
12Afternoon Session
13FIFTY-FOURTH DAY Friday, 8 February 1946
14Morning Session
15Afternoon Session
16FIFTY-FIFTH DAY Saturday, 9 February 1946: Morning Session
17FIFTY-SIXTH DAY Monday, 11 February 1946
18Morning Session
19Afternoon Session
20FIFTY-SEVENTH DAY Tuesday, 12 February 1946
21Morning Session
22Afternoon Session
23FIFTY-EIGHTH DAY Wednesday, 13 February 1946
24Morning Session
25Afternoon Session
26FIFTY-NINTH DAY Thursday, 14 February 1946
27Morning Session
28Afternoon Session
29SIXTIETH DAY Friday, 15 February 1946
30Morning Session
31Afternoon Session
32SIXTY-FIRST DAY Monday, 18 February 1946
33Morning Session
34Afternoon Session
35SIXTY-SECOND DAY Tuesday, 19 February 1946
36Morning Session
37Afternoon Session