Lindeperg, Sylvie. The Nuremberg Trials – To Stage or Not to Stage.

The US legal team at Nuremberg developed a media policy that took into account the assumed broad political, historical, educational and moral functions that the Nuremberg trial would serve; the OSS took over the plan for documenting the trial, which undertook an audacious visual program led by John Ford, with the aim of educating US public opinion at each stage of the trial. Sources include US National Archives collections, USHMM holdings, and private papers of those involved, and extends the author’s argument from her monograph on Nuremberg (2021) as well as work of Axel Fischer (2014).

This chapter forms part of the following volume: Eric Le Bourhis, Irina Tcherneva, and Vanessa Voisin (eds.), Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East Europe: A People’s Justice? (Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022).

Sylvie Lindeperg, “The Nuremberg Trials – To Stage or Not to Stage: Conflicting Visions and Creative Differences,” in Eric Le Bourhis, Irina Tcherneva, and Vanessa Voisin (eds.), Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East Europe: A People’s Justice? (Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022), 78-105.