At Nuremberg, the war’s victors must make their case against Hitler’s surviving leaders. David Irving follows the courtroom confrontations, prison tensions and political disputes behind the trial. With David Irving’s original thumb impression.
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Germany has surrendered, but the struggle over judgment is just beginning. David Irving follows American prosecutor Robert Jackson from the negotiations that create the Nuremberg tribunal to his confrontation with Hermann Göring, placing the public proceedings alongside the rivalries and calculations behind them. Jackson wants to establish that leaders can be held personally responsible for aggressive war. The defendants must choose between defending the regime, blaming absent superiors and separating their own actions from its crimes.
The narrative moves between the courtroom, prison cells and the judges’ private conferences. It covers the dispute over prosecuting aggressive war, Jackson’s falling-out with William Donovan, Rudolf Hess’s claimed amnesia and Albert Speer’s efforts to distance himself from the other defendants. The final chapters follow the verdicts, appeals, executions and investigations into Göring’s suicide, before considering the trial’s aftermath.
Using diaries, letters, interrogation records and interviews, Irving argues that political interests and the victors’ power compromised the proceedings. His account also advances Holocaust-denial claims about Auschwitz and the number of Jews murdered, which contradict established historical evidence. Photographs, reproduced documents, chapter source notes and an index accompany the narrative.
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David Irving is a renowned British historian and author of over 30 books. Known for his meticulous primary source research, he has spent decades in archives across the globe, unearthing diaries, documents, and first-hand accounts that have reshaped our understanding of the Second World War and its key figures.
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