The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 7): Evidence, Testimony, and the Origins of International Criminal Law

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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E-bog: 20. november 2020