The Nuremberg Trial

Short History Of...

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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⁠A Short History of Ancient Rome⁠ - the debut book from the Noiser Network is out now! Discover the epic rise and fall of Rome like never before. Pick up your copy now at your local bookstore or visit ⁠⁠noiser.com/books⁠⁠ to learn more. As the Second World War ended and those who survived the horrors of Hitler’s violence struggled to process what had occurred, a unique response was demanded from the international community. Its form, the victors concluded, should be the criminal prosecution of those most culpable for the worst crimes of the Nazi regime. Known as the Nuremberg Trial, the first of these prosecutions required a redefinition of the law, and was seen as an important step in the prevention of any possible future revival of the Nazi movement. But how did the Allies work together to establish this unique judicial event? What dramas did the trial itself witness? And what were the consequences for those in the dock, and the world beyond? This is a Short History Of The Nuremberg Trial. A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins. With thanks to James Bulgin, Head of Public History at the Imperial War Museum, and author of Nuremberg, published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the trial. Written by Dan Smith | Produced by Kate Simants | Production Assistant: Chris McDonald | Exec produced by Katrina Hughes | Sound supervisor: Tom Pink | Sound design by Oliver Sanders | Assembly edit by Anisha Deva | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: Cody Reynolds-Shaw Get every episode of Short History Of… a week early with Noiser+. You’ll also get ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to shows across the Noiser podcast network. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Cadbury Heroes.
0:05.2	If the past teaches us anything, it's this.
0:08.4	One great individual can change a moment, but when a group of great individuals come together,
0:13.6	that's when history is made.
0:16.0	Take the codebreakers at Bletchley Park, Turing, Clark, Welchman, each a genius in their own right, but together
0:22.6	they cracked the uncrackable code that won the war. Or those heroic swashbucklers, Dark Tannion
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0:46.6	delicious chocks in one single tub. All heroes, no zeros. It is the 15th of April 1945.
0:56.0	A young private in the British Army sits in the back of a military truck, part of a convoy
1:02.0	rattling through the countryside of northern Germany.
1:05.0	With the Second World War in its end game, the Allies are advancing through the country as the Nazi regime
1:11.8	crumbles. Yet there is no sense of triumph in the back of the truck, more simple apprehension
1:18.7	as to what they will encounter. The word is that they are to distribute rations to civilian
1:23.9	prisoners of war and that many of them are in a poor way.
1:30.3	Soon enough, the truck slows at gates set into a perimeter fence that seemed to go on forever,
1:36.3	clad in menacing barbed wire and with watchtowers rearing up at regular intervals.
1:42.3	Beyond, lie row upon row of wooden huts.
1:49.8	Once inside the compound, the driver kills the engine, and the soldier and his comrades
1:54.0	spill out of the back of the truck, their heavy boots thumping down on the dusty ground.
1:59.8	It is the smell that hits him first,
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