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At Nuremberg, World War II’s Battle Turned to the Courtroom, and an Eloquent Lawyer Helped Lead the Allies to Victory

In the fall of 1945, a bit more than six years after Nazi Germany invaded Poland and started the biggest and deadliest ...

Friday essay: the Nuremberg Trials at 80 – could such a reckoning ever happen again?

Nuremberg, often called ‘history’s greatest trial’, officially opened on October 18 1945. It held senior Nazi leaders to ...