Description: Foreword Preface 1. Historical Precedents Commission of Responsibilities, Majority Report, March 29, 1919 United States Representatives on the Commission of Responsibilities, Memorandum of Reservations to the Majority Report April 4, 1919 The Treaty of Versailles, 1919 Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928 Henry L. Stimson, Speech before the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, Augst 8, 1932 2. Background Winston S. Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin, Moscow Declaration, November 1, 1943 Winston S. Churchill, An Exchange with Roosevelt and Stalin at Teheran, November 29, 1943 Henry Morgenthau Jr., Memorandum for President Roosevelt (The Morgantheu Plan), September 5, 1944 Henry L. Stimson, Memorandum Opposing the Morganthau Plan, September 9, 1944 Cordell Hull, Henry L. Stimson, and James Forrestal, Draft Memorandum for the President, November 11, 1944 Henry L. Stimson, Edward R. Stettinius Jr., and Francis Biddle, Memorandum for the President, January 22, 1945 American Draft of Definitive Proposal, Presented to Foreign Ministers at San Francisco, April 1945 Memorandum of Conversation of Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and Samuel Rosenman with Vyacheslav Molotov and Anthony Eden, in San Francisco, May 3, 1945 3. Preparations Robert H. Jackson, Report to the President, June 6, 1945 Minutes of the London Conference for the Preparation of the Trial, July 23, 1945 Sidney Alderman, On Negotiating with the Russians, 1951 Charter of the International Military Tribunal, August 8, 1945 International Military Tribunal, Indictment, October 6, 1945 4. The Court Francis Biddle, Description of the Court Robert H. Jackson, Opening Address for the United States, November 21, 1945 Hartley Shawcross, Opening Address for the United Kingdom, December 4, 1945 Francois de Menthon, Opening Address, January 17, 1946 Roman A. Rudenko, Opening Address, February 8, 1946 M. Y. Raginsky, Cross-Examination of Albert Speer, June 21, 1946 G. N. Alexandrov, Cross-Examination of Fritz Sauckel, May 31, 1946 Francis Biddle, A Rebuke for the Soviet Prosecutors Hermann Goring, Testimony on the Nazi Party, March 14, 1946 Robert H. Jackson, Cross-Examination of Hermann Goring, March 18, 1946 Robert H. Jackson, Appeal to the Bench, March 19, 1946 Motion Adopted by All Defense Counsel, November 19, 1945 5. Crimes against Peace Sidney Alderman, Address to the Tribunal, November 23, 1945 Hartley Shawcross, On Aggressive War and the Evolution of the Law of Nations, December 4, 1945 Hermann Goring, Testimony Denying a Nazi Conspiracy to Wage War, March 14, 1946 Hermann Goring, Testimony on the Hossbach Memorandum, March 14, 1946 Alfred Seidl, Questioning of Joachin von Ribbentrop on the Nazi-Soviet Pact, April 1, 1946 Alfred Seidl, Questioning of Ernst von Weizsacker on the Secret Protocol, May 31, 1946 Erich Raeder, Testimony on the German Attack on Norway, May 17, 1946 Hartley Shawcross, Evidence on the German Attack on the Soviet Union, April 4, 1946 Wilhelm Keitel, Testimony on Hitler''s Plan to Attack the Soviet Union, April 4, 1946 Alfred Jodl, Testimony on Soviet Preparations to Attack Germany, June 5, 1946 6. War Crimes Francois de Menthon, The Concept of War Crimes, January 17, 1946 Charles Dubost, The German Use of Civilian Hostages, January 24, 1946 Marie Claude Vaillant-Couturier, Testimony on the Gassing at Auschwitz, January 28, 1946 Hanns Marx, Cross-Examination of Marie Claude Vaillant-Couturier, January 28, 1946 Roman A. Rudenko, The German Destruction of the Soviet Union, February 8, 1946 Roman A. Rudenko, The Mistreatment and Murder of Soviet Prisoners of War, February 8, 1946 Telford Taylor, Questioning of Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, January 7, 1946 Yuri Pokrovsky, Examination of Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, January 7, 1946 Robert H. Jackson, Cross-Examination of Albert Speer, June 21, 1946 Karl Donitz, Testimony about His Relationship with Hitler, May 9, 1946 Wilhelm Keitel, Testimony on War Crimes, April 6 and April 7 1946 Hermann Goring, Testimony on the Applicability of the Hague Convention of 1907, March 15, 1946 Robert H. Jackson, On the Guilt of the Leader and His Followers, July 26, 1946 7. Crimes against Humanity Hartley Shawcross, On the Law of the Charter on Crimes against Humanity, July 26, 1946 Francois de Menthon, On Crimes against the Human Status, January 17, 1946 William F. Walsh, On the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, December 14, 1945 Abram Suzkever, Persecution of the Jews of Vilna, February 27, 1946 Rudolf Hoss, Testimony on Auschwitz, April 15, 1946 Hermann Goring, Testimony on Nazi Policy toward the Jews, March 14, 1946 Alfred Thoma, Defense of Alfred Rosenberg on the Persecution of the Jews, July 10, 1946 Walther Funk, Statement of Remorse, May 6, 1946 Franz von Papen, Explanation for Remaining at His Post, June 19, 1946 8. Last Words Hermann Goring, Final Statement, August 31, 1946 Rudolf Hess, Final Statement, August 31, 1946 Albert Speer, Final Statement, August 31, 1946 Judgment: "The Law of the Charter," September 30-October 1, 1946 Judgment: The Law as to the Common Plan or Conspiracy," September 30-October1, 1946 Judgment: "The Persecution of the Jews," September 30-October 1, 1946 Judgment: "The Accused Organizations," September 30-October 1, 1946 9. Assessment Henry L. Stimson, "Nuremberg: Landmark in Law," January 1947 Francis Biddle, Andrei Vyshinsky''s Visit to Nuremberg, 1962 Otto Kranzbuhler, Challenge to the Nuremberg Procedures, 1964 Henry L. Stimson, Assessment of the Judgment, January 1947 APPENDICES Chronology of Events Related to the Nuremberg Trial (1919-1946) The Defendants and Their Fate Charges, Verdicts, and Sentences Selected Bibliography Index

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