
The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 9)
Courtroom Evidence, Nazi Leadership Crimes, and the Birth of International Criminal LawBy International Military TribunalLength26h 28m
About this audiobook
The ninth volume of The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings preserves a substantial portion of the International Military Tribunal's documentary record, presenting the courtroom's evidentiary exchanges, legal arguments, witness examinations, and judicial reasoning in the formal language of the trial transcript. Its value lies less in narrative compression than in procedural immediacy: readers encounter how criminal responsibility, aggressive war, persecution, and crimes against humanity were defined and contested in open court. As both a primary source and a landmark text in international legal history, the volume belongs to the postwar literature that transformed the documentation of Nazi crimes into a foundation for modern international criminal jurisprudence. Its dense, forensic style rewards sustained attention and careful comparison with the broader proceedings. The "author" is the International Military Tribunal, the multinational court established by the Allied powers after the Second World War to prosecute leading figures of the Nazi regime. The volume therefore reflects not a single authorial consciousness but a collective judicial enterprise shaped by British, American, French, and Soviet legal traditions. Compiled from official proceedings, it emerged from the urgent postwar effort to establish responsibility through evidence, due process, and publicly reasoned judgment rather than through reprisal alone. This volume is especially recommended for students and scholars of international law, modern European history, genocide studies, political theory, and archival practice. It also serves general readers seeking a direct understanding of how the Nuremberg court converted atrocity into a legal and historical record. Demanding but indispensable, it makes visible the evidentiary labor behind one of the twentieth century's most consequential trials.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length26 hrs 28 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V.1)
2Nuremberg Trials: Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (V. 9)
3PREFACE
4SEVENTY-SEVENTH DAY Friday, 8 March 1946
5Morning Session
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6Afternoon Session
7SEVENTY-EIGHTH DAY Monday, 11 March 1946
8Morning Session
9Afternoon Session
10SEVENTY-NINTH DAY Tuesday, 12 March 1946
11Morning Session
12Afternoon Session
13EIGHTIETH DAY Wednesday, 13 March 1946
14Morning Session
15Afternoon Session
16EIGHTY-FIRST DAY Thursday, 14 March 1946
17Morning Session
18Afternoon Session
19EIGHTY-SECOND DAY Friday, 15 March 1946
20Morning Session
21Afternoon Session
22EIGHTY-THIRD DAY Saturday, 16 March 1946: Morning Session
23EIGHTY-FOURTH DAY Monday, 18 March 1946
24Morning Session
25Afternoon Session
26EIGHTY-FIFTH DAY Tuesday, 19 March 1946
27Morning Session
28Afternoon Session
29EIGHTY-SIXTH DAY Wednesday, 20 March 1946
30Morning Session
31Afternoon Session
32EIGHTY-SEVENTH DAY Thursday, 21 March 1946
33Morning Session
34Afternoon Session
35EIGHTY-EIGHTH DAY Friday, 22 March 1946
36Morning Session
37Afternoon Session
38EIGHTY-NINTH DAY Saturday, 23 March 1946: Morning Session