The Nuremberg Epilogue: A Soviet Delegate’s Memoirs of the Nazi War Crimes Tribunal (Soviet Sourcebooks and Analyses of the Settler Colonial and Fascist Questions Book 3)

An official Soviet delegate left a definitive message for history about fascism and the internationalist administration of justice.Arkady Poltorak, senior researcher at the Moscow Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, was a member of the Soviet delegation at the Nuremberg trial of the principal German war criminals (1945-1946). Other books by him include From Munich to Nuremberg, The Nuremberg Trial (Basic Legal Problems), Nuremberg Reminds and The Soviet Bar (the latter two were written in co-operation with Y. Zaitsev).In The Nuremberg Epilogue, Poltorak recapitulates what he saw and heard at the trial. He takes the reader into the Palace of Justice where the trial went on for nearly a year, and acquaints him with the Judges and the Prosecutors, and also with the defense counsels.The reader gets a good look at Goering, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Jodl, Kaltenbrunner, Schacht and other defendants, and also at numerous witnesses, among whom were former Field Marshals von Brauchitsch, Manstein and Rundstedt. Read more