
The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 8)
Courtroom Testimony, War Crimes Evidence, and the Foundations of International Criminal LawBy International Military TribunalLength20h 38m
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The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (Vol. 8) preserves a substantial portion of the International Military Tribunal's official record, presenting the courtroom examination through which the prosecution and defense tested evidence concerning Nazi Germany's crimes. Its pages reveal the formal architecture of an unprecedented international criminal proceeding: documentary exhibits, witness testimony, legal objections, and carefully reasoned exchanges among counsel and judges. The volume's style is consequently forensic rather than literary, yet its cumulative drama is unmistakable. Read within the postwar tradition of documentary history and legal memorialization, it illuminates how atrocity was translated into a prosecutable account under principles that would influence subsequent international criminal law. The International Military Tribunal was not an individual author but the four-power judicial body established by the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Its proceedings arose from the Allied determination that state leaders and officials should be held personally responsible for aggressive war, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The tribunal's institutional purpose—to create an authoritative, public record while adjudicating guilt—shaped the volume's meticulous and evidentiary character. This volume is recommended to readers of legal history, Holocaust and genocide studies, modern European history, and international relations. It rewards close study by showing not only what the tribunal concluded, but how arguments, evidence, and competing interpretations were developed in real time. Researchers will value its primary-source authority, while general readers will find in it an indispensable record of the difficult birth of international criminal justice.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length20 hrs 38 mins
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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. 8)
3PREFACE
4SIXTY-THIRD DAY Wednesday, 20 February 1946
5Morning Session
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6Afternoon Session
7SIXTY-FOURTH DAY Thursday, 21 February 1946
8Morning Session
9Afternoon Session
10SIXTY-FIFTH DAY Friday, 22 February 1946
11Morning Session
12Afternoon Session
13SIXTY-SIXTH DAY Saturday, 23 February 1946
14Morning Session
15Afternoon Session
16SIXTY-SEVENTH DAY Monday, 25 February 1946
17Morning Session
18Afternoon Session
19SIXTY-EIGHTH DAY Tuesday, 26 February 1946
20Morning Session
21Afternoon Session
22SIXTY-NINTH DAY Wednesday, 27 February 1946
23Morning Session
24Afternoon Session
25SEVENTIETH DAY Thursday, 28 February 1946
26Morning Session
27Afternoon Session
28SEVENTY-FIRST DAY Friday, 1 March 1946
29Morning Session
30Afternoon Session
31SEVENTY-SECOND DAY Saturday, 2 March 1946: Morning Session
32SEVENTY-THIRD DAY Monday, 4 March 1946
33Morning Session
34Afternoon Session
35SEVENTY-FOURTH DAY Tuesday, 5 March 1946: Morning Session
36SEVENTY-FIFTH DAY Wednesday, 6 March 1946
37Morning Session
38Afternoon Session
39SEVENTY-SIXTH DAY Thursday, 7 March 1946
40Morning Session
41Afternoon Session