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Justice at Nuremberg / Robert E. Conot.

Summary:

Here, for the first time in one volume, is the full story of the crimes committed by the Nazi leaders and of the trials in which they were brought to judgment. Conot reconstructs in a single narrative not only the events at Nuremberg but the offenses with which the accused were charged. He characterizes each of the twenty-one defendants, presenting each case and inspecting carefully the process of indictment, prosecution, defense and sentencing.--From publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 0881840327
ISBN: 9780881840322
Physical Description: xiii, 593 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2009, c1983.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

[Pt]. 1. Crime and punishment. Escape from Auschwitz ; The sword of justice ; The accused -- [Pt]. 2. Interrogation and indictment. The prisoners of Ashcan ; The documentation division ; Goering and Hess : the flight from reality ; Ribbentrop : the wandering Aryan ; Jackson : the labors of Hercules ; The judges ; Ley : the disaster of anti-Semitism ; The Krupp fiasco ; Attorneys for the defense ; Discord on the prosecution ; The eve of trial -- [Pt]. 3. Prosecution. The conspiracy ; "A ring of evil men" : the Röhm Purge ; The Hossbach meeting : a split in the alliance ; Goering's coup : the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis ; Goering as Machiavelli : the Anschluss ; Conflict : Donovan versus Jackson ; The rape of Czechoslovakia ; Kristallnacht : the plot against the Jews ; Schacht : an economy in ruins ; "War is still a law of nature" : the Moscow Pact ; Keitel and Jodl : "a child's game in a sandbox" ; "The train of the dead" ; The ravages of euthanasia ; Frank : the ant and the aphid ; Barbarossa : the commissar and partisan orders ; Einsatzgruppen ; Speer and Sauckel : slave labor ; "The final solution of the Jewish question" ; Partisan warfare ; The perversion of German medicine ; "Night and fog," and counterterror ; War crimes ; "A most terrible and convincing case" -- [Pt]. 4. Defense. The catlike elephant : Goering ; The faithful followers : Hess and Ribbentrop ; "Destiny took its tragic course" : Keitel ; A breath of ashes : Kaltenbrunner ; "A thousand years of guilt" : Rosenberg and Frank ; The venomous vulgarian : Streicher ; An irregular witness : Frick and Schacht ; Blood on the gold : Funk ; A question of equivocation : Doenitz and Raeder ; The American : Schirach ; The political general : Jodl ; The fox and the goat : Speer and Sauckel ; Step by step : Seyss-Inquart, Papen, Neurath, and Fritzsche ; The Katyn Forest Massacre ; The poisoned chalice : the case of the organizations ; A mad and melancholy record ; Epitaph on ideals -- [Pt]. 5. Judgment. Deliberation ; Verdict ; Execution ; Requiem for the Reich.