In August 1942, Hitler directed all German state institutions to assist Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the German police, in eradicating armed resistance in the newly occupied territories of Eastern Europe and Russia. The directive for “combating banditry” (Bandenbekämpfung), became th...
The Allies were determined to judge Nazi war crimes, avoiding the sham of the 1921 Leipzig trials.1 Nuremberg became a world stage, the test whether international law could be made to work. The Allies arrived in Nuremberg with different agendas. The Soviet Union, obviously used to political show ...