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Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945-46 A Documentary History

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ISBN-10: 0312136919

ISBN-13: 9780312136918

Edition: 1997

Authors: Michael R. Marrus

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Written by Michael Marrus, this text is an introduction for students to the complex 1946 war crimes of major Nazi leaders such as Goering, Hess and Himmler. Documents in every chapter include verbatim testimony, verdicts and cross-examination.
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List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 1/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.49" wide x 8.14" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Michael R. Marrus is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies and the former dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto.

Foreword
Preface
Historical Precedents
Commission of Responsibilities, Majority Report, March 29, 1919
United States Representatives on the Commission of Responsibilities, Memorandum of Reservations to the Majority Report April 4, 1919
The Treaty of Versailles, 1919
Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928
Speech before the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, Augst 8, 1932
Background
Moscow Declaration, November 1, 1943
An Exchange with Roosevelt and Stalin at Teheran, November 29, 1943
Memorandum for President Roosevelt (The Morgantheu Plan), September 5, 1944
Memorandum Opposing the Morganthau Plan, September 9, 1944
Draft Memorandum for the President, November 11, 1944
Memorandum for the President, January 22, 1945
American Draft of Definitive Proposal, Presented to Foreign Ministers at San Francisco, April 1945
Memorandum of Conversation of Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and Samuel Rosenman with Vyacheslav Molotov and Anthony Eden, in San Francisco, May 3, 1945
Preparations
Report to the President, June 6, 1945
Minutes of the London Conference for the Preparation of the Trial, July 23, 1945
On Negotiating with the Russians, 1951
Charter of the International Military Tribunal, August 8, 1945
International Military Tribunal, Indictment, October 6, 1945
The Court
Description of the Court
Opening Address for the United States, November 21, 1945
Opening Address for the United Kingdom, December 4, 1945
Opening Address, January 17, 1946
Opening Address, February 8, 1946
Cross-Examination of Albert Speer, June 21, 1946
Cross-Examination of Fritz Sauckel, May 31, 1946
A Rebuke for the Soviet Prosecutors
Testimony on the Nazi Party, March 14, 1946
Cross-Examination of Hermann Goring, March 18, 1946
Appeal to the Bench, March 19, 1946
Motion Adopted by All Defense Counsel, November 19, 1945
Crimes against Peace
Address to the Tribunal, November 23, 1945
On Aggressive War and the Evolution of the Law of Nations, December 4, 1945
Testimony Denying a Nazi Conspiracy to Wage War, March 14, 1946
Testimony on the Hossbach Memorandum, March 14, 1946
Questioning of Joachin von Ribbentrop on the Nazi-Soviet Pact, April 1, 1946
Questioning of Ernst von Weizsacker on the Secret Protocol, May 31, 1946
Testimony on the German Attack on Norway, May 17, 1946
Evidence on the German Attack on the Soviet Union, April 4, 1946
Testimony on Hitler's Plan to Attack the Soviet Union, April 4, 1946
Testimony on Soviet Preparations to Attack Germany, June 5, 1946
War Crimes
The Concept of War Crimes, January 17, 1946
The German Use of Civilian Hostages, January 24, 1946
Testimony on the Gassing at Auschwitz, January 28, 1946
Cross-Examination of Marie Claude Vaillant-Couturier, January 28, 1946
The German Destruction of the Soviet Union, February 8, 1946
The Mistreatment and Murder of Soviet Prisoners of War, February 8, 1946
Questioning of Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, January 7, 1946
Examination of Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, January 7, 1946
Cross-Examination of Albert Speer, June 21, 1946
Testimony about His Relationship with Hitler, May 9, 1946
Testimony on War Crimes, April 6 and April 7 1946
Testimony on the Applicability of the Hague Convention of 1907, March 15, 1946
On the Guilt of the Leader and His Followers, July 26, 1946
Crimes against Humanity
On the Law of the Charter on Crimes against Humanity, July 26, 1946
On Crimes against the Human Status, January 17, 1946
On the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, December 14, 1945
Persecution of the Jews of Vilna, February 27, 1946
Testimony on Auschwitz, April 15, 1946
Testimony on Nazi Policy toward the Jews, March 14, 1946
Defense of Alfred Rosenberg on the Persecution of the Jews, July 10, 1946
Statement of Remorse, May 6, 1946
Explanation for Remaining at His Post, June 19, 1946
Last Words
Final Statement, August 31, 1946
Final Statement, August 31, 1946
Final Statement, August 31, 1946
Judgment: "The Law of the Charter," September 30-October 1, 1946
Judgment: The Law as to the Common Plan or Conspiracy," September 30-October1, 1946
Judgment: "The Persecution of the Jews," September 30-October 1, 1946
Judgment: "The Accused Organizations," September 30-October 1, 1946
Assessment
"Nuremberg: Landmark in Law," January 1947
Andrei Vyshinsky's Visit to Nuremberg, 1962
Challenge to the Nuremberg Procedures, 1964
Assessment of the Judgment, January 1947
Appendices
Chronology of Events Related to the Nuremberg Trial (1919-1946)
The Defendants and Their Fate
Charges, Verdicts, and Sentences
Selected Bibliography
Index