Before Russell Crowe starred in Nuremberg, Judgment at Nuremberg handled the important trial in an even more compelling way.

They were not supposed to think. “Just following orders” conveniently removed the possible internal conflict by justifying immoral actions. Individuals were removed of personal responsibility, ...

They were not supposed to think. “Just following orders” conveniently removed the possible internal conflict by justifying immoral actions. Individuals were removed of personal responsibility, ...

No civilized nation has ever thought that a member of the military is justified in obeying illegal or unconstitutional orders ...

"The View" co-host Joy Behar invoked the Nazi Nuremberg trials on Tuesday in her warning to service members who may be following "illegal orders" from the Trump administration. While discussing the ...

In the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial of 1946/47, some of the Nazi doctors who had committed crimes against humanity were prosecuted and sentenced. The trial has a historical significance far beyond its ...

“You want to know why it happened here?” asks Howie Triest — a German Jew serving as a U.S. military translator — in the new film Nuremberg. “Because people let it happen. They didn’t stand up until ...

This is the first complete set of digitized Nazi war documents. It contains transcripts in English from all 13 Nuremberg trials. Before today, only 20% of the Nuremberg materials were available.

When the Allies brought senior Nazis leaders to trial in Nuremberg, it marked the first time that individuals, not just states, were held responsible for war crimes ...

The court room of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials during the 1946 trial of Hermann Göring and other Nazi leaders. (AP/STF) They started calling it the “Nuremberg defense” when lawyers for Lt. William ...