Nuremberg trials 
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/6/2022
What Tom Cotton Got Wrong about Robert H. Jackson and Nuremberg
by Gillian Brockell
"Jackson not only supported the Nuremberg defendants’ right to counsel, he was a key part of the governing body that enshrined it into international law."
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SOURCE: Blue Book Diaries
5/10/2021
“Essentially an Evil Thing”
by Jonathan Wilson
Recent European controversies over the veneration of historical figures have considered war consequentially, as a means of achieving national ends. It's time to think of war, as the Nuremberg judges did, as an intrinsic evil.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
3/29/2021
The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On
by Erica X. Eisen
The defense of capitalism during the Cold War meant that businesses and businessmen who collaborated in war crimes went unpunished.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
1/27/2021
The Persistence of Hate In American Politics
After Charlottesville, the historian Joan Wallach Scott wanted to find out how societies face up to their past—and why some fail. Aryeh Neier reviews Scott's comparative history of the Nuremberg Trials, the South African Truth and Reconciliation effort, and the debate over reparations to African Americans for slavery and Jim Crow.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
November 13, 2019
Nazi war crimes evidence comes to the Holocaust museum in Washington
by Michael E. Ruane
Newly digitized copies of audio, film and pictures from the Nuremberg trials detail the breadth and depravity of the Holocaust.
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SOURCE: CBS News
5-7-17
60 Minutes profiles the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials
Ben Ferencz was 29 when he led the prosecution of the Nazis behind Einsatzgruppen – anti-Semitic death squads which murdered more than a million people by shooting them.
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SOURCE: The Boston Globe
Nuremberg lessons still fresh 70 years later
by Jack Curtis
The lessons of Nuremberg had profound ripple effects in how the world confronts the savagery of both war and genocide.
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9-7-14
What We Don't Remember About Nuremberg, but Should
by Diana West
The fascinating and unfamiliar story of the disclosure of the Soviet pact with Hitler.
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