(JTA) — At the opening of his trial in Nuremberg, Julius Streicher made several uncharacteristically friendly statements about Jews — a people he had devoted his professional life to demonize.
Still, the case has already made legal history. “It’s the first time since the Nuremberg trials that senior executives of a large, listed company are in the dock for war crimes,” said Wesselink.
Twenty-two of the indicted men eventually sat in the dock in the Nuremberg courtroom. Three of the defendants escaped trial: industrialist Gustav Krupp, who was too frail; Hitler's private ...
That kind of viewer might be disappointed. The six-part documentary — which flashes back and forth between a chronicling of the Nuremberg Trials and a chronicling of Hitler’s methodical rise ...
It is shocking to see a country that considers itself a champion of the rule of law trying to stymie the actions of an ...
A trial always ends abruptly – the verdict may be eagerly awaited but once delivered there is nothing left for the lawyers or judges to do. In the case of the Nuremberg war crime trials after ...
There are more than 1,000 artifacts and original photographs depicting the rise of Nazism to the Allied Liberation and ...
Abby Mann’s drama is set in Nuremberg in 1948, the time of the Nazi war crimes trials. It deals not with the trials of the more well-known Nazi leaders, but with members of the German judiciary ...