San Antonio College Library

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...

"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.

Provides an authoritative account of how the Allies finally agreed to try the surviving Nazi leaders under international law, rather than summarily shoot them without trial.

History of the Nuremberg war crimes trials by Telford Taylor, who became the American chief counsel.

One of the highlight opera productions of 2013 Salzburg Festival, the new Stefan Herheim production of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is conducted by Daniele Gatti. Michael Volle, one of the foremost German baritones, performs as Hans Sachs and highly acclaimed Italian tenor Roberto Saccà performs as Walther von Stolzing.

"The extraordinary story of a Renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overlooked journal In the late 1500s a Nuremberg man named Frantz Schmidt began to do something utterly remarkable for his era: he started keeping a journal. But what makes Schmidt even more compelling to us is his day job. For forty-five years, Schmidt was an efficient and prolific public executioner, employed by the state to extract confessions and put convicted...