Only a few months before, in the summer of 1944, Alfred Jodl had to listen as Der Fuhrer screeched at him in the Wolf's Lair: Jodl, Brennt Paris? No, Paris wasn't burning--because Herr Hitler's people ...

On Nov. 20, 1945, the world's attention was fixed on the southern German town of Nuremberg. There, Nazi war criminals were set to be tried for their World War II crimes. And international justice was ...

Eight of the 20 top Nazis being tried before the international military tribunal were charged today with direct complicity in the anti-Jewish atrocities carried out by the Germans. The accusation was ...

MICHAEL E. RUANE/The Washington Post. The Nazi general wanted to use the bathroom. World War II in Europe had just ended. And U.S. Army Capt. Seymour S. Steinberg, a baker’s son from Manhattan who had ...

The execution of 35,000 Jews in Kiev on Sept. 29 and 30, 1941, was described in a memorandum by a Nazi commander submitted to the International Military Tribunal today by Russian Prosecutor Col.

When the Nuremberg trial opened on November 20, 1945, it was just six months since Nazi Germany had surrendered and much of the city remained a bombed-out ruin. Jointly headed by an American, U.S.