The Trial of the Germans
Subtitle: An Account of the Twenty-Two Defendants Before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: September 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 637
ISBN-13: 9780826211392
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; Fascism & Nazism; International humanitarian law; The Holocaust; War crime trials; Law; War Crimes And Criminals; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Military - World War II; Europe - Germany; International; Germany; World War, 1939-1945; Atrocities; Nuremberg Trial of Major Germa; Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946
First sentence: On the night of October 15-16, 1946, the strokes of the bell tolling the hours in Nuremberg were being heard for the last time by eleven men lying in their cells in the Palace of Justice, the vast prison of the city that had been the center of the Nazi ceremonies celebrating the power and glory of the Party and its Fuehrer.