Twenty-two of the indicted men eventually sat in the dock in the Nuremberg courtroom. Three of the defendants escaped trial: industrialist Gustav Krupp, who was too frail; Hitler's private ...

Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany surrendering in May and its leaders going on trial ...

Eighty years after its liberation, the camp stands as a monument to leaving unrestrained our basest, darkest tendencies.

These two books mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Nuremberg tribunal, but with the trial of Saddam Hussein dragging on in Iraq they could hardly be more topical. The issue of the responsibility of ...

The Justice Department delivered part of special counsel Jack Smith’s report to Congress early Tuesday morning, explaining ...

Many defendants argued successfully that they ... in the trial to show how insignificant he was. “There were the Nuremberg trials after the war, where the big shots and responsible officers ...

Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany surrendering in May and its leaders going on trial for war crimes in November.

On trial at Nuremberg were the Nazis’ top brass. Here, the defendants are “second stringers, since those who did the killing are dead,” either as a result of blowing themselves up or of ...

When their conquest plans collapsed and their genocide was ended, the world expected that such men would be punished, and in August 1947 the US-organised Nuremberg War Criminal ... 10 of the 24 ...