The Nuremberg Trials: Volume I

On 20 November 1945, six months after VE Day marked the end of war in Europe, the most significant event in the history of international justice took place at Nuremberg in Germany. The victorious Allies – Britain, the USA, the Soviet Union, and France – brought 22 leaders of Germany’s infamous National Socialist regime to answer for their crimes at an international military tribunal.

The Nuremberg trials introduced the world to the atrocities of the Holocaust. The defendants were accused of the genocide of millions and of other appalling crimes committed in the name of Nazism. Over the course of roughly ten months, the scale of the extermination programme was exposed, its full horrors illustrated by live witness accounts and film footage from the concentration camps.

The proceedings in Courtroom 600 were recorded for posterity. Drawing extensively on these official transcripts, The Nuremberg Trials charts the fascinating, complex, and frequently harrowing drama that sought to bring the last champions of the Nazi dictatorship to justice.