Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 15

This is the official transcript of one of history's most consequential legal proceedings. The Nuremberg Trials established, for the first time, that aggression and crimes against humanity would be prosecuted as international offenses - a founding moment for modern international law. This volume captures the courtroom exchanges from May through June 1946, where the machinery of justice confronted those who operated the machinery of death. The proceedings documented here include testimony regarding the systematic exploitation of forced labor across Nazi-occupied Europe, the logistical apparatus of genocide, and the defendants' attempts to deflect responsibility through bureaucracy and obedience to orders. These pages preserve not just legal arguments, but the precise language of perpetrators - the vocabulary of euphemism and evasion they employed when confronted with their actions. Reading these transcripts is not comfortable. It is not meant to be.