The Nuremberg War crimes trial 1945-46 : a brief history with documents / [compiled by] Michael R. Marrus, University of Toronto.

Between November 1945 and October 1946, 22 high-ranking Nazi officials defended themselves before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. This book reproduces sections of the Nuremberg trial record, with an introduction that outlines the background to the proceedings, traces the preparatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Bedford series in history and culture.
Other Authors: Marrus, Michael Robert (Compiler)
Language:English
Published: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, Macmillan Learning, [2018]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Bedford series in history and culture.
Subjects:
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.
Germany.
1945-1946
Physical Description:xiv, 289 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction to the Nuremberg Trial. Historical precedents ; Background ; Preparations ; The Court ; Crimes against peace ; War crimes ; Crimes against humanity ; Last words ; Assessment
  • The documents. Historical precedents. Commission of responsibilities, Majority Report, March 29, 1919
  • United States Representatives on the Commission of Responsibilities, Memorandum of Reservations to the Majority Report, April 4, 1919
  • The Treaty of Versailles, 1919
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928
  • Henry L. Stimson, Speech before the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, August 8, 1932
  • Background. Winston S. Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin, Moscow Declaration, November 1, 1943
  • Winston S. Churchill, An Exchange with Roosevelt and Stalin at Teheran, November 29, 1943
  • Henry Morgenthau Jr., Memorandum for President Roosevelt (The Morgenthau Plan), September 5, 1944
  • Henry L. Stimson, Memorandum Opposing the Morgenthau Plan, September 9, 1944
  • Cordell Hull, Henry L. Stimson, and James Forrestal, Draft Memorandum for the President, November 11, 1944
  • Henry L. Stimson, Edward R. Stettinius Jr., and Francis Biddle, Memorandum for the President, January 22, 1945
  • American Draft of Definitive Proposal, Presented to Foreign Ministers at San Francisco, April 1945
  • American Draft of Definitive Proposal, Presented to Foreign Ministers at San Francisco, April 1945
  • Memorandum of Conversation of Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and Samuel Rosenman with Vyacheslav Molotov and Anthony Eden, in San Francisco, May 3, 1945
  • Preparations. Robert H. Jackson, Report to the President, June 6, 1945
  • Minutes of the London Conference for the Preparation of the Trail, July 23, 1945
  • Sidney Alderman, On Negotiating with the Russians, 1951
  • Charter of the International Military Tribunal, August 8, 1945
  • Jacob Robinson to Robert Jackson on Adolf Eichmann, July 27, 1945
  • International Military Tribunal, Indictment, October 6, 1945
  • The Court. Thomas J. Dodd to Mary Grace Murphy Dodd, June 1, 1946
  • Francis Biddle, Description of the court, 1962
  • Robert H. Jackson, Opening Address for the United States, November 21, 1945
  • Hartley Shawcross, Opening Address for the United Kingdom, December 4, 1945
  • Francois de Menthon, Opening Address, January 17, 1946
  • Roman A. Rudenko, Opening Address, February 8, 1946
  • G.N.. Alexandrov, Cross-Examination of Fritz Sauckel, May 31, 1946
  • Francis Biddle, A Rebuke for the Soviet Prosecutors
  • Hermann Goring, Testimony on the Nazi Party, March 14, 1946
  • Robert H. Jackson, Cross-Examination of Hermann Goring, March 18, 1946
  • Robert H. Jackson, Appeal to the Bench, March 19, 1946
  • Motion Adopted by All Defense Counsel, November 19, 1945
  • Crimes against peace. Sidney Alderman, Address to the Tribunal, November 23, 1945
  • Hartley Shawcross, On Aggressive War and the Evolution of the Law of Nations, December 4, 1945
  • Hermann Goring, Testimony Denying a Nazi Conspiracy to Wage War, March 14, 1946
  • Hermann Goring, Testimony on the Hossbach Memorandum, March 14, 1946
  • Alfred Seidl, Questioning of Joachim von Ribbentrop on the Nazi-Soviet Pact, April 1, 1946
  • Alfred Seidl, Questioning of Ernst von Weizacker on the Secret Protocol, May 31, 1946
  • Erich Raeder, Testimony on the German Attack on Norway, May 17, 1946
  • Hartley Shawcross, Evidence on the German Attack on the Soviet Union, December 4, 1945
  • Wilhelm Keitel, Testimony on Hitler's Plan to Attack the Soviet Union, April 4, 1946
  • Alfred Jodl, Testimony on Soviet Preparations to Attack Germany, June 5, 1946
  • War Crimes. Francois de Menthon, The Concept of War Crimes, January 17, 1946
  • Charles Dubost, The German Use of Civilian Hostages, January 24, 19
  • Marie Claude Vaillant-Couturier, Testimony on the Gassing at Auschwitz, January 28, 1946
  • Hanns Marx, Cross-Examination of Marie Claude Vaillant-Couturier, January 28, 1946
  • Roman A. Rudenko, The German Destruction of the Soviet Union, February 8, 1946
  • Roman A. Rudenko, The Mistreatment and Murder of Soviet Prisoners of War, February 8, 1946
  • Telford Taylor, Questioning of Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, January 7, 1946
  • Yuri Pokrovsky, Examination of Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, January 7, 1946
  • Robert H. Jackson, Cross-Examination of Albert Speer, June 21, 1946
  • Karl Donitz, Testimony about his Relationship with Hitler, May 9, 1946
  • Wilhelm Keitel, Testimony on War Crimes, April 6 and 7, 1946
  • Hermann Goring, Testimony on the Applicability of the Hague Convention of 1907, March 15, 1946
  • Robert H. Jackson, On the Guilt of the Leader and His Followers, July 26, 1946
  • Crimes against humanity. Francois de Menthon, On Crimes against the Human Status, January 17, 1946
  • William F. Walsh, On the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, December 14, 1945
  • Abram Suzkever, Persecution of the Jews of Vilna, February 27, 1946
  • Rudolf Hoss, Testimony on Auschwitz, April 15, 1946
  • Hermann Goring, Testimony on Nazi Policy toward the Jews, March 14, 1946
  • Telford Taylor, Memorandum on a Separate Trial for the Murder of European Jewry, February 6. 1947
  • Alfred Thoma, Defense of Alfred Rosenberg on the Persecution of the Jews, July 10, 1946
  • Walther Funk, Statement of Remorse, May 6, 1946
  • Franz von Papen, Explanation for remaining at His Post, June 19, 1946
  • Last words. Final statement, August 31,1946 / Hermann Goring ; Rudolf Hess ; Albert Speer
  • Judgment: "The Law of the Charter" ; "The Law as to the Common Plan or Conspiracy" ; "The Persecution of the Jews" ; "The Accused Organizations", September 30-October 1, 1946
  • Assessment. Henry L. Stimson, "Nuremberg: Landmark in Law," January 1947
  • Francis Biddle, Andrei Vyshinsky's Visit to Nuremberg, 1962
  • Otto Kranzbuhler, Challenge to the Nuremberg Procedures, 1964
  • Henry L. Stimson, Assessment of the Judgment, January 1947
  • Appendixes. The defendants and their fates
  • Charges, verdicts, and sentences
  • Chronology of events related to the Nuremberg Trial (1919-1946)
  • Questions for consideration.