Letters from Nuremberg
By: Christopher Dodd with Lary Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Lary.
Publisher: Crown Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780307381163
Subjects: Dodd, Thomas J. -- 1907-1971 -- Correspondence; World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Germany; Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946; War crime trials -- Germany -- Nuremberg; Senators -- United States -- Correspondence; Lawyers -- United States -- Correspondence
Genres: Correspondence.
Description: The Nuremberg trials demonstrated the resolve of the Allied victors of the Second World War to uphold the principles of dispassionate justice and the rule of law even when cries of vengeance threatened to carry the day. Thomas J. Dodd served as a staff lawyer in this unprecedented trial for crimes against humanity. Thanks to his agile legal mind and especially to his skills at interrogating the defendants, he quickly rose to become the number two prosecutor in the U.S. contingent. Over the course of 15 months, Dodd described his efforts and his vivid impressions of the proceedings in nightly letters to his wife, Grace. Unexamined for decades, these letters now remind us of the inspiration that good people across the world have long taken from that courtroom--and that fear and retribution are not the only bases for confrontation.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes index.