Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 02

This is not a history of the Nuremberg Trials. This is the Nuremberg Trials themselves, the verbatim transcript of the proceedings that invented the concept of crimes against humanity. Here are the actual words spoken in the courtroom: the testimony of survivors, the documents seized from Nazi headquarters, the arguments of prosecutors who had to explain the unexplainable to a world still reeling from the Holocaust. Volume Two begins with a procedural debate that would set the tone for everything that followed: whether Gustav Krupp, too ill to stand trial, could be tried in absentia. The prosecution argued that the dead deserved an answer. The defense warned of dangerous precedents. Both were right. What unfolds is not merely a legal proceeding but the first attempt by the international community to build a moral architecture for accountability, one that would shape every war crimes tribunal since. This is primary source material at its most raw and consequential.