Prelude to Nuremberg

Between November 1945 and October 1946 the International<br/>Military Tribunal in Nuremberg tried some of the most notorious<br/>political and military figures of Nazi Germany. The issue of<br/>punishing war criminals was widely discussed by the leaders of<br/>the Allied nations however well before the end of the war. As<br/>Arieh Kochavi demonstrates the policies finally adopted<br/>including the institution of the Nuremberg trials represented<br/>the culmination of a complicated process rooted in the domestic<br/>and international politics of the war years.<br/><br/>Drawing on extensive research Kochavi painstakingly<br/>reconstructs the deliberations that went on in Washington and<br/>London at a time when the Germans were perpetrating their worst<br/>crimes. He also examines the roles of the Polish and Czech<br/>governments-in-exile the Soviets and the United Nations War<br/>Crimes Commission in the formulation of a joint policy on war<br/>crimes as well as the neutral governments' stand on the question<br/>of asylum for war criminals. This compelling account thereby<br/>sheds new light on one of the most important and least understood<br/>aspects of World War II.