Volume 29, Number 2 · February 18, 1982
Nuremberg in Washington
By Robert Dallek
The Road to Nuremberg
by Bradley F. Smith
Basic Books, 303 pp., $14.95
For ten and a half months beginning November 20, 1945, American, British, French, and Russian jurists at Nuremberg sat in judgment on twenty-two German leaders accused of committing aggression against other nations, violating the rules of war, and committing 'crimes against humanity'—deportations, enslavement, and genocide. This was an unprecedented event. Never before had a coalition of states organized an international military tribunal to punish war criminals.
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