Justice at Nuremberg

Book

Justice at Nuremberg / Robert E. Conot.

Summary:

Drawing on the documents in the National Archives, the papers of key figures, and numerous interviews, this comprehensive study recounts the public trial, the behind-the-scenes maneuverings, and the major personalities of the unique, complex trial.

Record details

ISBN: 0881840327
ISBN: 9780881840322
Physical Description: xiii, 593 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Publisher: New York : Carroll & Graf, 1984, ©1983.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-584) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Acknowledgments and methodology -- Introduction -- [pt]. 1. Crime and punishment -- 1. Escape from Auschwitz -- 2. The sword of justice -- 3. The accused -- [pt]. 2. Interrogation and indictment -- 4. The prisoners of Ashcan -- 5. The documentation division -- 6. Goering and Hess : the flight from reality -- 7. Ribbentrop : the wandering Aryan -- 8. Jackson : the labors of Hercules -- 9. The judges -- 10. Ley : the disaster of anti-Semitism -- 11. The Krupp fiasco -- 12. Attorneys for the defense -- 13. Discord on the prosecution -- 14. The eve of trial -- [pt]. 3. Prosecution -- 15. The conspiracy -- 16. A ring of evil men" : the Röhm Purge -- 17. The Hossbach meeting : a split in the alliance -- 18. Goering 's coup : the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis -- 19. Goering as Machiavelli : the Anschluss -- 20. Conflict : Donovan versus Jackson -- 21. The rape of Czechoslovakia -- 22. Kristallnacht : the plot against the Jews -- 23. Schacht : an economy in ruins -- 24. War is still a law of nature : the Moscow Pact -- 25. Keitel and Jodl : a child's game in a sandbox -- 26. The train of the dead -- 27. The ravages of euthanasia -- 28. Frank : the ant and the aphid -- 29. Barbarossa : the commissar and partisan orders -- 30. Einsatzgruppen -- 31. Speer and Sauckel : slave labor -- 32. The final solution of the Jewish question -- 33. Partisan warfare -- 34. The perversion of German medicine -- 35. Night and fog, and counterterror -- 36. War crimes -- 37. A most terrible and convincing case -- [pt]. 4. Defense -- 38. The catlike elephant : Goering -- 39. The faithful followers : Hess and Ribbentrop -- 40. Destiny took its tragic course : Keitel -- 41. A breath of ashes : Kaltenbrunner -- 42. A thousand years of guilt : Rosenberg and Frank -- 43. The venomous vulgarian : Streicher -- 44. An irregular witness : Frick and Schacht -- 45. Blood on the gold : funk -- 46. A question of equivocation : Doenitz and Raeder -- 47. The American : Schirach -- 48. The political general : Jodl -- 49. The fox and the goat : Speer and Sauckel -- 50. Step by step : Seyss-Inquart, Papen, Neurath, and Fritzsche -- 51. The Katyn Forest Massacre -- 52. The poisoned chalice : the case of the organizations -- 53. A mad and melancholy record -- 54. Epitaph on ideals -- [pt]. 5. Judgment -- 55. Deliberation -- 56. Verdict -- 57. Execution -- 58. Requiem for the Reich -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.