The Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out between 1945 and 1949, the Trial of Major War Criminals being held from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946.
Written by Jonathan Myerson, the drama tells the story from the lesser-heard perspectives of those amongst thousands of individuals tasked with fighting what became the last battle of World War II.
"At the Nuremberg trial the doctors and nurses stood trial, and they hung.”
Political rivals and CIDI, Dutch Jewry’s watchdog on antisemitism, said Baudet’s remark was “shocking.”
This week, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum placed online more than 700 hours of audio recordings from the trials, as well as 37 reels of film introduced as evidence.
After six years of war, the Allied powers came together to deliver justice on Nazi leaders who had caused the deaths of millions of people.
"My job was to get into the concentration camps as they were being liberated, with the dead bodies all over the floor and with people waiting to be burned because the crematorium was so overcrowded."
A new book examines the deliberations, machinations and intrigues among the Allied countries, who provided the prosecutors and the judges.
The initiative is part of an effort to make the material available to the public
Nuremberg prosecutor's life story to be adapted as screen feature.