The Nuremberg Trials: The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity (Sirius Military History) Paperback – April 1, 2020

For anyone interested in the fate of the various Nazi war criminals after WWII, this book is an excellent overview. It's laid out well - it starts with details about how the trials came to fruition, who the judges were, and how the Allied powers worked together. It discusses the debate between trying the Nazis versus execution without trial. It details all of the Nazis who were tried in the first round of Nuremberg trials, what their roles were, and how they interacted with the judges, the prison psychologist, and each other. It also summarizes their sentences, the rationale for their sentences, and their reactions to their sentences. At the end, there are summaries of other trials that took place in Nuremberg but that were not as famous as the first trials (where Goering was tried).The Nuremberg Trials were lengthy and detailed; the author notes in this book how many of the prosecution and defense's arguments would go on for hours at a time. I was worried that the book would get bogged down with tedious trial details, but it did not.The only complaint I have about this book is that I found it hard to recall who some of the leaders were. I was familiar with Goering and several other defendants going into this book, but I had not heard of many of the others. Toward the beginning of the book, the author lists all of the defendants and what they are accused of; I recommend bookmarking these brief summaries for the people who you are unfamiliar with, so that you can reference them later.This is a great value for a Kindle book as well. Definitely a worthwhile and quick read.

I was barely a year old when the initial trials convened in Nuremberg. I was older but only slightly wiser when Judgment at Nuremberg premiered. I was an adult flying protective sorties against our former ally, Soviet Russia during the Cold War. But only as a septuagenarian visiting Nuremberg just a few months ago did I finally appreciated and finally comprehend the ghastly dichotomy of this now pleasant city in southern Germany. Not far from Zeppelin Field and the infamous Nazi Stadium, the courts where the momentous trials, so well recorded and documented in this book, finally came into sharp focus and entered their proper place in historyThis Nuremberg Trials book helped to put these heroic legal efforts into proper perspective and made me realize why we refer to our fathers and mothers as members of the greatest generation...perhaps the most courageous, too.The book is definitely worth reading and the reflection it generates should remind us of George Santayana's words.

The book summarizes the Nuremburg trials, the accused, and their crimes It was easy to read and follow and gave an overall feel for the procedures and the individuals that were involved, which is what I was looking for.

For the price, this is a decent, basic introduction to the Nuremburg Trials. It will familiarize the reader with the event, the proceedings, the personalities and the outcome. As other reviews note, there are a few gaffs, but nothing major, that I saw. The content is orderly but the sections are a bit jagged and uneven in length. Many of the passages cited of witnesses anyone well versed in Nazi history will recognize from other books or from the documentary footage of the trials.The author does not excuse Speer, does not try to make a case for him.The summation goes off the rails a bit, mentioning other war crimes trials and briefly attempting to justify the lack of such trials for American crimes in Vietnam. He is unable to remain neutral in some passages and is guilty, in my eyes, of author intrusion into the story.But for its faults, it's a quick read and will tell you what you what you need to know about the subject.

I read the book in one sitting and found it to be well-written and informative. I do take issue with the author's statement in the epilogue connecting the U.S. "atrocities" and "abuses" in Iraq to the murderous rampage of the Nazis. Though I was opposed to the Iraq war, I am not opposed to the actions of the U.S. regarding terrorists who are not a part of a declared war and who torture innocents with no due process. Waterboard everyone of them if it saves lives. Is that abusive, I would say it is. Is it torture? No, it is not. They will recover. I wish we lived in a perfect world, but we do not, and I want potential terrorists to fear U.S. reaction to their attacks. Until the day impressionable youth are willing to tell mullahs if they, the mullahs, want someone to strap on the bomb and commit murder, do it themselves, we must, unfortunately, respond swiftly and without mercy. There is neither a comparison nor a connection between the Nazis and the U.S. response to terrorism

I was looking for a book on the Nuremberg Trials that wouldn't bog me down in legal jargon. Simply put, I wanted to know who was on trial (the first Nuremberg Trial), to what extent were they involved in the Holocaust, and a clear explanation as to what constitutes an aggressive war. This book did just that, as well as a brief history of the men on trial, the strategy used in their legal defense, and the outcome. I highly recommend this book.

This was my first book specifically on Nuremberg trials. Having read only references in other publications and historical accounts in text books, I was aware of their importance. This book spelled it out in a concise manner. At times it was very fast paced, always interesting and never dry or boring.

Insightful and well researched

This is not a work of fiction. It is a work of fact, the details within this book are horrendous, our need for knowledge and understanding of the acts that were perpetrated by evil doers should be treated with respectEvery aspect of War is covered here, but it's the Horror of what Human Beings are capable of to inflict harm on their own kindIn the pages of this book you will read how elderly, and young Jews and Russians, communist prisoners of war were gassed, shot experimented on and ultimately betrayed by their fellow man, to appease the vile hatred of Adolph HitlerAlso you will read stories of how these evil men would try and wriggle out of their involvement by the old saying, "we were following orders."I believe that the perpetrators should have all been executed, without trial, but at the end there is an eloquent argument for this not to be the caseLest we forgetIt's not the Evil that men do that will destroy us, it's that good men will watch while Evil is done

The best book I have ever read on the Nuremberg Trials. It is so informative it is almost unreal.Man's inhumanity to Man, as the Trials reveal, can at times have no bou

Once I started reading it could not put the book down. Well written and well researched book. The narrative is quite racy and the author rightly omits laborious details. A Very very interesting and educative book for those interested in the WW2 and its consequences upon the world.

It describes the trial of the criminals of WW 2 in details . The trial was just and unbiased .