
audiobook
by United States. Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality
This volume brings together a striking collection of original German documents, translated and compiled by the American and British prosecutors who built the case for the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Listeners will hear memoranda, orders, and internal communications that reveal how Nazi officials coordinated policies of aggression and persecution, from the seizure of Jewish property to directives aimed at destabilising occupied territories. The material is presented with minimal editorial framing, preserving the stark language of the sources while noting occasional translation gaps.
The compilation also includes testimonies from U.S. military officials who oversaw the gathering and organization of this evidence in the immediate aftermath of the war. By hearing these primary records, listeners gain a direct sense of the bureaucratic machinery behind the regime’s criminal actions and the painstaking effort required to document them for prosecution. The volume offers a sobering glimpse into the legal groundwork that helped shape post‑war accountability.
Language
en
Duration
~36 hours (2094K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Release date
2020-09-30
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Created to help build the case at Nuremberg, this U.S. government office assembled one of the most important documentary records of Nazi crimes and aggression. Its books read less like a conventional history and more like the evidence file behind a landmark war-crimes prosecution.
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