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The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945-46: A Documentary History (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Michael R. Marrus
Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997
Grand Book
This a brillant book in how it shifts through the various documents in order to make the reader fully aware of what has happened. Marrus allows for a good mixture of both procecuting and defending testimony from the Trial and the various confrences during, before and ...
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Nuremberg : Infamy on Trial
Joseph E. Persico
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995
Excellent Easy Read, Maybe a Little Gossipy!
For an introductory look of the Trials and Crimes at the first and most famous Nuremberg Trial, this book is really top drawer. It gives an excellent view of why the trials occurred, the round ups of the prisoners, and the state of the beautiful and devastated city of ...
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Nuremberg Diary
G. M. Gilbert
Da Capo Press, 1995
A fascinating, gripping read!!!
This book was totally fantastic! A real chance to get into the minds of the higher up Nazis! It was fascinating to see the different personalities, and how they reacted to what was going on! Some were scared, some were totally arrogant, some were up and down. A ...
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The Nuremberg Interviews
Vintage, 2007
Unique and Fascinating
This book contains the near-verbatim transcripts of interviews conducted by American psychiatrist Leon Goldensohn with the Nazi leaders on trial at Nuremberg. I would say it is crucial to anyone wishing to understand the Nazi regime and the Holocaust in particular.
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Doctors from Hell
Sentient, 2005
Excellent easy read!
This is an excellent well written book that is based on the facts of the dr's war criminal trials! I found it highly educating and recommend this book to everyone as a historical reference or as just a guide to understanding things and events that took place in the ...
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The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation
Oxford University Press, USA, 1995
Multi-faceted
This book is wonderful! It provides information on not only Nazis and their medical experiments, but the ethics (or the lack thereof) behind it all. It also delves into medical ethics in general, including the U.S.'s not so pleasant past. I would recommend this book ...
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Magdalena and Balthasar : An Intimate Portrait of Life in 16th Century Europe Revealed in the Letters of a ...
Yale University Press, 1989
A lovely picture window into another time
I read this book long ago and have never forgotten it. It is a wonderful glimpse of the life of a couple who loved one another but lived in a time that is considered almost alien to how we live now. These letters show that people long ago felt the same things we feel ...
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Justice at Nuremberg
Robert E Conot
Basic Books, 1993
A very thorough account
For those who enjoyed TNT's Nuremburg movie and would like to develop a more complete understanding of the trial, "Justice at Nuremburg" is for you. Author Robert Conot does a lot more than just recount the trial of the leading Nazis. He gives a full portrayal of ...
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Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy
Steven R. Ratner, Jason Abrams, ...
Oxford University Press, USA, 2009
An incredibly in depth review of a terrible legal dilemma
Abrams and Ratner provide an excellent in depth review of the legal and moral difficulties in bringing perpertrators of genocide to justice.
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Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany
Steven Ozment
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001
Historical research you can rely upon
On the basis of careful archival research, Ozment has achieved the type of insight that makes for reliable history. His work depicts the old imperial city of Nuremberg during the 16th century. He is using the correspondence between members of prominent patrician ...
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Robert H. Jackson: New Deal Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, Nuremberg Prosecutor
Gail Jarrow
Calkins Creek Books, 2008
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The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History
Hilary Earl
Cambridge University Press, 2010
Excellent In-Depth Look Into Official Mass Murder
The author, Hilary Earl, has written a masterful tome on the banality of evil. The book is incredibly well-researched with lots of excellent tables and charts which help explain how these leaders of Einsatzgruppen units during WW2 came to be mass murderers under color ...
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Tyranny on Trial: The Trial of the Major German War Criminals at the End of the World War II at Nuremberg ...
Whitney Harris
Southern Methodist University Press, 1999
Great overview of the Nuremburg Trial
This is hands down the most depressing book I have ever read in my life. I'm not saying that as a criticism. It is completely appropriate to feel depressed after reading this book on this subject. What did I gain from this book? First hand accounts from the Trials ...
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The SS Totenkopf Ring: An Illustrated History from Munich to Nuremberg
Craig Gottlieb
Schiffer Pub Ltd, 2008
Outstanding
A book written for collectors by a collector expertly traces one of the Third Reich's highly prized awards, the Totenkpof Ring.
The author has documented 200 of these rings, which he has observed, and makes the assertion that if 20,000 were actually issued then the ...
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A Train of Powder
Rebecca West
Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2000
Questions the Assumptions We Make About Punishment
The headnote for A TRAIN OF POWDER: SIX REPORTS ON THE PROBLEM OF GUILT AND PUNISHMENT IN OUR TIME by Rebecca West is, "Our God is not out of breath, because he has blown one tempest, and swallowed a Navy: our God hath not burned out his eyes, because he has looked ...
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