Nuremberg Trials: Exposing the Worst Crimes of WWII with Dr. Finn Ballard
Description Led by an expert on twentieth-century German history, Dr. Finn Ballard, this 60-minute webinar will revive the tale of the most significant effort to bring Nazi perpetrators to justice postwar. In the autumn of 1945, a disheveled collection of war criminals–at their helm, a morphine-addled Hermann Göring–were brought to the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, a city that had once been at the epicenter of Nazi adulation, to face the first-ever International Military Tribunal. The atrocities exposed at the Nuremberg Trials would astonish the world, and the legal precedents which were set would resonate to this day. This webinar will explore this period of uncomfortable history through the lens of the Nuremberg Trials. Together we will examine the history of the Trials, from the early suicide of two key defendants to the capital sentencing and executions of ten others. We will discuss how the legal concept of crimes against humanity, and indeed of genocide, were consolidated at th