Book on Nuremberg Trials

[Ralph A]

Nuremberg book

Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial by Joseph E. Persico, Penguin, ISBN 0 14 01.6622 X Paperback, 443pp.

I've read everything that I see posted here, and then some... the guys have made some excellent suggestions. Persico's book is the one to read, though, if you want to read only one.

Great stuff. Great book you will not be able to put down. Please read it. All of you will be fascinated at this accounting of the trials. Great, great stuff, and some really cool pics of the old Nazi's! Seeing the old Wehrmacht generals up close and personal in mufti and in old cast off G.I. uniforms is fascinating.

Unbiased reporting. What really happened with the Goering suicide? Hans Frank accepted Christ? What was Burton K. Andrus's agony? Why did even Goering fear him? What key role did photographer Heinrich Hoffmann play? Did hangman Sgt. John Wood botch the execution (Ribbentrop dangled for almost 25 minutes before his heart stopped; others even longer.) What happened to the bodies? Why? What was in the psychiatric reports of the Nazis? What were the results of the court-ordered IQ tests? What in the hell is up with Julius Streicher washing his face in the toilet?

Great stuff.

[Ralph A]

excerpt..

and funny.

"The guard on Julius Streicher's cell motioned to the GI (standing guard) on Wilhelm Frick's cell to come over. What he wanted to show would only take a second. Frick's guard made sure his prisoner was asleep in the proper position, back to the wall, hands outside covers, and came over to Streicher's cell. Streicher's guard had fashioned a tiny hangman's noose from a piece of string. He was dangling the string in front of the spotlight directed into the cell. The light projected the noose, full size, against the back wall. Streicher's guard banged on the door. Streicher awoke, and let out a bloodcurdling scream. The guards laughed uproariously."

Stuff like this mingled in with the reporting makes the book fun to read and more than just another historical tract.

Get it!

[Mike Dunn]

Sounds like sick humor. Mike

[George Stimson]

Ralph is correct....

Persico's book is good also.

George

[Ralph A]

Mike,

if you knew what a nasty, depraved, wretched character Julius Streicher was, you'd laugh too.

Really.

[Dez H]

David Irving’s - Nuremberg the Last Battle is an excellent and well researched piece of work, he is a highly respected British author who often comes under attack from the media for his impendent research and publications.

Jamie; If you have the opportunity to read David Irving’s book - Hitler's War, you will discover that Irving is not a Holocaust denier at all be rather reveals that the majority of the mass executions and inhumane treatment of jews and POW’s was committed under Himmler’s eyes, without the knowledge or consent of Hitler. On many occasions Hitler reprimanded Himmler for his ill treatment of political prisoners and POW’s, ordering him to stop it immediately. Hitler was committed to following international laws and treaties in regard to the handling of prisoners. As the war progressed Hitler’s power base was eroded and the SS basically became a nation within a nation. People who brand him a Holocaust denier have never read his books.