San Antonio College Library

Drawing on an extensive range of sources including the minutes of the British prosecution team and the minutes of the tribunal's closed deliberations, this study tracesthe trail's legal, political, and logistical problems and vividly recreates the courtroom drama.

Contains primary source material.

"Why did war criminals like Goering, Hess, Kaltenbrunner, Keitel, and Rosenberg do what they did? Under Hitler how were men such as these able to get themselves into control of a great and civilized nation? Was it simply a case, as Hannah Arendt has argued, of the banality of evil - in a certain psychological climate, everybody does it? Or, as Stanley Milgram has argued, was it simply a matter of obedience to authority?"--Jacket.

Nuremberg: The Reckoning, William F. Buckley Jr.'s riveting historical novel about the 1945 International Military Tribunal that brought Nazi war criminals to justice, is driven by an illuminating synergy of fact and fiction. While drawing upon the record of furious, real-life events at Nuremberg and writing with mesmerizing authority about such participants as Herman Goering, Albert Speer, and Justice Robert Jackson (the United States' Chief Prosecutor...