NUREMBERG: Evil on Trial: The compelling story of the Greatest Trial in History

Modern account of the ‘trial of the century’ in which the surviving Nazi leaders were called to account for their war crimes - and for the Holocaust itself.

The Nuremberg Tribunal, in which the surviving top Nazi leaders who fell into Allied hands at the end of the Second World War, faced a new sort of international justice, can still justly claim to be the trial of the century. The judges came from the three powers whihc had humbled Germany - the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain; and from the outset there were disputes between them about what to do with and how to adcequately punish the men who had launched the war - and with it the deaths of millions - on the world. The 21 accused were led by Hitler’s Number Two, Hermann Goering, still a formidible figure who defied his accusers to the end when he swallowed a suicide pill hours before he was due to hang. Nuremeberg - the scene of the Nazi rallies in their glory days - was an appropriate setting for this reckoning, a ten month trial played out before the cameras, in which a horrified world first learned the details of the Holocaust from eye-witnesses. In the end ten Nazis walked to the gallows, while others, including Hess, Speer and Doenitz, controversially escaped with long jail terms. Because of the participation of Stalin’s equally blood-stained henchman, Nuremberg will always be seen by some as ‘victors’ justice’ though there is little doubt that the accused deserved their fate. James Owen, a lawyer turned historian, tells the story in a fresh and readable way and explains how Nuremberg pioneered the way for modern trials of genocidal political leaders such as the Hague tribunal.

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Product Code:	10613
Author:	James Owen
Format:	376pp, b/w photographs, hb. Published Price £20
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