Form and substance. Death sentences, divisions, the victor’s justice. Nuremberg was a titanic effort to assert the primacy of law over that of force. But the attempt to make it a binding precedent failed

The trials of Goering and the others teach us a lesson about the distinction between judge and prosecutor. Who put the prosecution in a difficult position and who turned the tide in its favour. And finally, the famous closing speeches

The new offences, the unprecedented trial of the victors against the vanquished, the arduous path leading to the charges, right up to the most chilling one. And the testimonies regarding the operation and planning of the machinery of extermination

From Rosenberg, the theorist behind the extermination of the ‘Jewish race’, to Frank, the ‘executioner of Kraków’. Along with the cowering Ribbentrop and the enigmatic Speer, the architect who had sold his soul to the devil

With the leading architects of the Nazi regime either dead or missing, the Allies selected the defendants, albeit on the basis of questionable legal criteria. Starting with the Reich Marshal, a brilliant intellect and a figure of ruthless unscrupulousness

With the war over, amidst the ruins of defeated Germany, the victorious powers put the crimes of Nazism on trial before an international military tribunal. A story that begins with a portrait of the key figures in the courtroom