A Fragile World
A Fragile World If there’s one thing that the ongoing pandemic teaches us, it’s that life is a somewhat fragile and precarious affair. This was achingly true for Gideon Klein, a young Czech Jew, and …
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A Brief History of the First Nazi Gas Chambers
In Brandenburg an der Havel State Welfare Institute a crude experiment using poison gas to murder people took place in January 1940. The experiment came about after Viktor Brack, a department head in the KdF …
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Human Rights: The Legacy of the Holocaust
“Human rights” is a term that gets thrown around a lot. But what are our human rights today and where do they come from? And how do they relate to the Holocaust? History of Human …
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The Lesser Known Twelve ‘Nuremberg Trials’
The Nuremberg trial, held in 1946, was unique at the time. It persecuted 24 of the most important and high-profile figures of the Third Reich. It was also the first international tribunal to be used …
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Nuremberg: The Changing Meanings of a City
Continuing our blog series on Nuremberg, our Travelling Historians, Hannah and Chelsea, are exploring what the city means in terms of its history and legacy. CS: So Nuremberg, a city we have both visited – …
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Nuremberg: The International Military Tribunal
On 20 November 1945 Soviet judge Major General Iona Nikitchenko opened the first session of the “International Military Tribunal” (IMT, a.k.a. the “Nuremberg Trial”) in the Palace of Justice in the German city of Nuremberg …
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Unsung Heroes of Justice: The Translators and Interpreters of the Nuremberg Trials
Over the course of November, we will commemorate and explore the legacy of the Nuremberg Trials through a series of blogs. These trials – which persecuted 22 high ranking Nazis for war crimes – had …
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