The Nuremberg Trials (Vol. 15)

Courtroom Records of Nazi War Crimes, Holocaust Evidence, and Postwar Justice

von International Military Tribunal

444 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Nuremberg Trials (Vol. 15) forms part of the monumental record of the International Military Tribunal's proceedings against leading figures of the Nazi regime. Composed in the austere idiom of courtroom examination, evidentiary presentation, and documentary citation, the volume is not conventional narrative but a juridical archive. Its force lies in the cumulative arrangement of testimony, argument, and record, situating individual acts within the broader legal and moral catastrophe of aggressive war, occupation, and systematic atrocity. The "author" is the International Military Tribunal itself, established by the Allied powers after the Second World War to adjudicate crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Its collective authorship reflects a historically unprecedented attempt to translate military victory into legal accountability. The volume therefore bears the marks of many voices: prosecutors, judges, defendants, witnesses, translators, and clerks, all contributing to a foundational text in modern international criminal law. This book is indispensable for readers seeking primary access to the legal reckoning with Nazism. Historians, jurists, students of ethics, and serious general readers will find it demanding but essential: a record whose documentary rigor continues to shape how the world understands justice after mass violence.

• Themen: Recht Recht bestimmter Jurisdiktionen und bestimmter Rechtsgebiete Primäre Rechtsquellen Fallrecht, Präzedenzfälle
• ISBN: 9788028376925
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.05.2024
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Sharp Ink