Series: International Military Tribunal

Browse a series of articles about the establishment of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and the larger context of postwar trials. Explore a range of topics including the construction of the courtroom itself, the defendants, the charges, the sentences, and the mass of evidence used during the proceedings. 

Postwar Trials

How Were the Crimes Defined?

International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg

International Military Tribunal: The Defendants

Building the Courtroom, Building the Case

Evidence from the Holocaust at the First Nuremberg Trial

Translation in the Courtroom

Who Tried the Case?

Witnessing History

Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings

Combating Holocaust Denial: Evidence of the Holocaust presented at Nuremberg

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