Fifty years ago, the trial of Nazi War criminals ended: the world had witnessed the rule of law invoked to punish unspeakable atrocities

In the war-shattered city of Nuremberg, in November 1945, an Allied tribunal convened to seek justice in the face of the Third Reich's monstrous war crimes.

  • By Robert Shnayerson
  • Smithsonian magazine, October 1996, Subscribe
 
 

 

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