Creators & ContributorsConot, Robert E. (author)
Göring, Hermann (related)
Hess, Rudolf (related)
Ribbentrop, Joachim von (related)
Jackson, Robert H. (related)
Röhm, Ernst (related)
Schacht, Hjalmar (related)
Keitel, Wilhelm (related)
Jodl, Alfred (related)
Frank, Hans (related)
Speer, Albert (related)
Sauckel, Fritz (related)
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst (related)
Rosenberg, Alfred (related)
Streicher, Julius (related)
Frick, Wilhelm (related)
Funk, Walther (related)
Dönitz, Karl (related)
Raeder, Erich (related)
Schirach, Baldur von (related)
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur (related)
Papen, Franz von (related)
Neurath, Konstantin, Freiherr von (related)
Fritzsche, Hans (related)
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946 (subject)

Summary"Conot reconstructs in a single... narrative not only the events at Nuremberg but the offenses with which the accused were charged. He... characterizes each of the twenty-one defendants... presenting each case and inspecting carefully the process of indictment, prosecution, defense and sentencing." —Back cover

ContentsI. Crime and Punishment

1. Escape from Auschwitz
2. The Sword of Justice
3. The Accused

II. Interrogation and Indictment

4. The Prisoners of Ashcan
5. The Documentation Division
6. Goering and Hess: The Flight from Reality
7. Ribbentrop: The Wandering Aryan
8. Jackson: The Labors of Hercules
9. The Judges
10. Ley: The Disaster of Anti-Semitism
11. The Krupp Fiasco
12. Attorneys for the Defense
13. Discord on the Prosecution
14. The Eve of Trial

III. Prosecution

15. The Conspiracy
16. "A Ring of Evil Men": The Röhm Purge
17. The Hossbach Meeting: A Split in the Alliance
18. Goering's Coup: The Blomberg-Fritsch Crisis
19. Goering as Machiavelli: The Anschluss
20. Conflict: Donovan versus Jackson
21. The Rape of Czechoslovakia
22. Kristallnacht: The Plot Against the Jews
23. Schacht: An Economy in Ruins
24. "War Is Still a Law of Nature": The Moscow Pact
25. Keitel an Jodl: "A Child's Game in a Sandbox"
26. "The Train of the Dead"
27. The Ravages of Euthanasia
28. Frank: The Ant and the Aphid
29. Barbarossa: The Commissar and Partisan Orders
30. Einsatzgruppen
31. Speer and Sauckel: Slave Labor
32. "The Final Solution of the Jewish Question"
33. Partisan Warfare
34. The Perversion of German Medicine
35. "Night and Fog," and Counterterror
36. War Crimes
37. "A Most Terrible and Convincing Case"

IV. Defense

38. The Catlike Elephant: Goering
39. The Faithful Followers: Hess and Ribbentrop
40. "Destiny Took Its Tragic Course": Keitel
41. A Breath of Ashes: Kaltenbrunner
42. "A Thousand Years of Guilt": Rosenberg and Frank
43. The Venomous Vulgarian: Streicher
44. An Irregular Witness: Frick and Schacht
45. Blood on the Gold: Funk
46. A Question of Equivocation: Doenitz and Raeder
47. The American: Schirach
48. The Political General: Jodl
49. The Fox and the Goat: Speer and Sauckel
50. Step by Step: Seyss-Inquart, Papen, Neurath, and Fritzsche
51. The Katyn Forest Massacre
52. The Poisoned Chalice: The Case of the Organizations
53. "A Mad and Melancholy Record"
54. Epitaph on Ideals

V. Judgment

55. Deliberation
56. Verdict
57. Execution
58. Requiem for the Reich

NotesIncludes bibliographical references (pages [579]–584) and index