Although the League of Nations and other international meetings had used simultaneous interpretation prior to the trials at Nuremberg, its successful use there in 1945 gave the method new importance.

I remember reading in a German publication an article about the Nuremberg Trials Memorial and a bench—yes, a bench—on which accused war criminals of the Hitler era sat while they were being tried.

In the case of the Nuremberg war crime trials after WW2 (recreated in Radio 4's drama-documentary series, Nuremberg) the authorities were ready for executions and prison sentences, but not ...

Radio 4's Nuremberg tells the entire story of the trial ... Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Konstantin von Neurath and Hans Fritzsche.

And while the trials themselves have been adapted to film before - notably in Stanley Kramer's 1961 epic Judgment at ...