How does the world confront the destruction of a war as brutal as World War II? How do nations begin to reckon with the cold efficiency of industrialised killing, with the deliberate machinery of ...

From left, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess and Joachim von Ribbentrop are tried for their crimes against humanity during World War II at the Nuremberg trials. (Charles Alexander, U.S. Chief of Counsel for ...

Abbas Jafari Dolat Abadi, the Tehran prosecutor who visited me in prison before my release, enraged by Pope Benedict’s letter advocating for me and my friend Mariyam, and threatening not to talk to ...

The new film Nuremberg may tell us as much about the present as about the past. Sometimes “history” tells us at least as much about the present as it does the past. James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg—the ...

Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today was intended for release in 1948 (just two years after the conclusion of the eponymous trial), but for mysterious reasons, that release didn’t happen for another 63 ...

When I appeared as a lawyer at The Hague, what struck me wasn’t the grandeur of international justice but its ordinariness. The room looked like any other courtroom: bad coffee, flickering ...

Starring Russell Crowe as the high-ranking Nazi and Rami Malek as Army officer Douglas M. Kelley, the film dramatizes the intense dynamic between its central characters during the Nuremberg trials ...

Movies that depict the history of war criminals on trial will almost always be worth making and worth watching. These films are edifying (and cathartic) in a way that could almost be considered a ...

The hangman, Army Sergeant John C. Woods, waxed and tested his ropes. He checked the wooden gallows for stability. He yanked the lever on the trap door to see if it worked properly. It creaked. So he ...