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The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945-46: A Documentary History (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

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The author has done a very good job of using primary sources to tell the story of the Allied attempt to be fair when punishing the Nazi leadership. I was impressed with his ability to tell the story and allow the reader to make his or her own conclusions. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the History of the Nazis and the Worlds response after World War II.

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 after the Trial. He gives a very good documentation of how the Allies came to teh conviction of 19 Nazis. As a historian of the Trials, I recfonmmend it to all who want to learn more of the Trials.

Susan, it was certain to be "dull" testimony in a sense. These Nazi war criminal were educated men who thought of their conduct as unexceptionable. Hannah Arendt described the Nazi atrocities as comprised of the "banality of evil" in describing Eichmann's testimony in Israel.

I expexted to read more of the testimonies but what was there wasn't very interesting. maybe that is the way it was. the book was very dry reading. i still haven't finished reading it and it is a rather slim volume.

Another good read for those interested in this field