Nuremberg Trials/Bibliography

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• James Owen. (2007) Nuremberg: Evil on Trial. Headline Review. ISBN 9780755315451.
  • "As the Second World War ended, the first army unit to come across the Nazi leaders could have executed them summarily. Or their judgement might have fallen to the German people, as at the end of the First World War. But an international military tribunal offered the unprecedented opportunity for them to be fairly tried and damned only on the evidence of their own meticulous documentation of genocide, war crimes and other atrocities. In November 1945, 22 of Nazi Germany's leading figures took the stand in a trial that foreshadowed the trials of war criminals in Bosnia, and Saddam Hussein in Iraq today. Nuremberg: Evil on Trial reveals the courtroom drama that unfolded. Sixty years after the verdict and executions, using original transcripts and incisive commentary, this is a comprehensive yet accessible account of a key moment in world history."

• Goldensohn L. (2004) The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses. Robert Gellately, editor. Random House: New York. ISBN 978-1-4000-3043-9. | Google books limited preview | 2500+ word excerpt from publisher
  • "During the Nuremberg trials, Dr. Leon Goldensohn — a psychiatrist for the U.S. Army — monitored the mental health of two dozen German leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations have gone largely unexamined for more than fifty years, until Robert Gellately — one of the premier historians of Nazi Germany — made them available to the public in this collection....[I]nterviews with the likes of Hans Frank, Hermann Goering, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Joachim von Ribbentrop — the highest ranking Nazi officials in the Nuremberg jails....[I]nterviews with lesser-known officials essential to the inner workings of the Third Reich....[An] addition to our understanding of the Nazi mind and mission."

• G. M. Gilbert. (1995) Nuremberg diary, Part 804, Nuremberg Diary, G. M. Gilbert, Volume 1966 of Signet book, Ronald N. Boyce Collection, Volume 4551 of Signet non-fiction. Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780306806612. | Google books limited preview
  • "In August 1945 Great Britain, France, the USSR, and the United States established a tribunal at Nuremberg to try military and civilian leaders of the Nazi regime. G. M. Gilbert, the prison psychologist, had an unrivaled firsthand opportunity to watch and question the Nazi war criminals. With scientific dispassion he encouraged Göering, Speer, Hess, Ribbentrop, Frank, Jodl, Keitel, Streicher, and the others to reveal their innermost thoughts. In the process Gilbert exposed what motivated them to create the distorted Aryan utopia and the nightmarish worlds of Auschwitz, Dachau, and Buchenwald. Here are their day-to-day reactions to the trial proceedings; their off-the-record opinions of Hitler, the Third Reich, and each other; their views on slave labor, death camps, and the Jews; their testimony, feuds, and desperate maneuverings to dissociate themselves from the Third Reich's defeat and Nazi guilt."

• Robert E. Conot. (1984) Justice at Nuremberg. Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN 9780881840322. | Google books extensive limited preview
  • "Drawing on the documents in the National Archives, the papers of key figures, and numerous interviews, this comprehensive study recounts the public trial, the behind-the-scenes maneuverings, and the major personalities of the unique, complex trial."