Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 14

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Various

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal" is a historical account published in the late 1940s. The volume presents the official proceedings of the Nuremberg Trials, where key leaders of Nazi Germany were prosecuted for war crimes after World War II. The book aims to document the testimonies, evidence, and verdicts against the defendants, which included high-ranking military officials and political leaders involved in orchestrating the atrocities of the war. At the start of the book, readers are introduced to the meticulous and formal proceedings of the trial that took place between November 1945 and October 1946. The opening section details the initial gathering of the Tribunal, including absences of certain defendants, and the questioning of Admiral Erich Raeder concerning various military documents and alleged violations of treaties. The exchanges highlight Raeder's justifications regarding ammunition stocks and military preparations, setting a tone of legal examination that permeates the testimonies throughout the trials. The book's beginning establishes a framework for understanding the complexities of the defense strategies employed by the accused and the nature of their guilt amid the undeniable evidence of the Holocaust and aggressive warfare. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Credits:

John Routh PM, Cindy Beyer, and the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net

Notes:

Reading ease score: 69.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.

v. 1. Official documents; v. 2-22. Proceedings; v. 23. Chronological index, subject index; v. 24. Document index, name index, and errata; v. 25-42. Documents and other material in evidence.

Trial against H.W. Göring, R. Hess, J. von Ribbentrop, R. Ley, W. Keitel, E. Kaltenbrunner, A. Rosenberg, H. Frank, W. Frick, J. Streicher, W. Funk, H. Schacht, G. Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, K. Dönitz, E. Raeder, B. von Schirach, F. Sauckel, A. Jodl, M. Bormann, F. von Papen, A. Seyss-Inquart, A. Speer, C. von Neurath, and H. Fritzsche, individually and as members of any groups or organizations to which they belonged.

Release date is 2021-12-25