The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir

The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir

by Telford Taylor
The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir

The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir

by Telford Taylor

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Overview

A long-awaited memoir of the Nuremberg war crimes trials by one of its key participants. In 1945 Telford Taylor joined the prosecution staff and eventually became chief counsel of the international tribunal established to try top-echelon Nazis. Telford provides an engrossing eyewitness account of one of the most significant events of our century.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307819819
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 06/20/2012
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 703
Sales rank: 415,138
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

TELFORD TAYLOR was a professor of law at the Columbia University Law School. After graduating from Williams College and Harvard Law School, he served with various government agencies in Washington, becoming general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission in 1940. He served in the army during World War II and was a staff prosecutor in the Nuremberg war trials in 1946. Mr. Taylor was the author of several books, including The March of Conquest (1958), Sword and Swastika (1962), and The Breaking Wave (1967). He died in 1998.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Chapter 1 Nuremberg and the Laws of War 3

Chapter 2 The Nuremberg Ideas 21

Chapter 3 Justice Jackson Takes Over 43

Chapter 4 Establishing the Court: The London Charter 56

Chapter 5 The Defendants and the Charges: Krupp and the German General Staff 78

Chapter 6 Berlin to Nuremberg 116

Chapter 7 Nuremberg: Pretrial Pains and Problems 129

Chapter 8 On Trial 165

Chapter 9 The Nuremberg War Crimes Community 208

Chapter 10 The SS and the General Staff-High Command 236

Chapter 11 Individual Defendants, Future Trials, and Criminal Organizations 262

Chapter 12 The French and Soviet Prosecutions 293

Chapter 13 The Defendants: Goering and Hess 319

Chapter 14 The Defendants: "Murderers' Row" 351

Chapter 15 The Defendants: Bankers and Admirals 381

Chapter 16 The Defendants: The Last Nine 417

Chapter 17 The Closing Arguments 473

Chapter 18 The Indicted Organizations 501

Chapter 19 The Defendants' Last Words 534

Chapter 20 The Judgments of Solomons 546

Chapter 21 Judgment: Law, Crime, and Punishment 571

Chapter 22 Epilogue and Assessment 612

Appendices 643

Source Notes 655

Bibliography 677

Index 683

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