Nuremberg: The Trial of Major War Criminals

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🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949, the Nuremberg trials were held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. The most widely-known of those trials was the Trial of Major War Criminals, held from November 20, 1945, to October 1, 1946. Judges from the Allied powers of Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States, presided over the hearing of 22 defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and doctors, were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.

Sir John Tusa, broadcaster and writer, joins Dan on the podcast. They discuss what led to the Nuremberg trials, the intricate details of the Trial of Major War Criminals, outcomes for subsequently convicted war criminals such as Hermann Göring, and the lasting impact of these trials.

This episode is dedicated to the late Ann Tusa, who co-authored with husband John, 'The Nuremberg Trial'.

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0:33.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's history hit this podcast is first broadcast the day after Holocaust Memorial Day
0:42.0	2022 and so yesterday we heard from a very remarkable survivor of Auschwitz
0:48.1	Today we're going to hear from a great broadcaster a writer a towering figure of the arts and cultural world
0:54.4	Here in the UK also a descendant of Eastern European refugees who came to Britain during the war
1:01.2	He is so John Chusa he wrote the Neuronburg trial in 2010 with his late wife Ann who were very happy and proud to be able to dedicate this podcast to sadly
1:12.2	She's recently passed away
1:15.7	Following on from yesterday's accounts of the criminality the barbarism of the Nazi regime today
1:21.5	We're going to talk about the attempt to bring those who perpetrate those crimes to justice
1:28.0	In December 1942 leaders of the US
1:31.3	Soviet Union and Great Britain all issued the first joint declaration
1:35.4	Officially noting the mass murder of European jewelry and resolving to prosecute those responsible for violence against civilian populations
1:44.1	The war trials took place at Neuronburg from November the 20th 1945
1:48.6	To the autumn of 1946
1:52.9	Many senior nazis and military figures were put on trial
1:56.3	Probably most famous among them Herman Goring the man who
2:00.4	Well thought himself to be in was thought by me to be Hitler's
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