Holocaust on trial: mass observation and British media responses to the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945-1946

Examines the popular resonance of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Designed not only to bring the leading surviving members of the Third Reich to judicial account, the trials also aimed to acquaint the world with the enormity of Nazi criminality and ensure it could never be repeated. Sharples questions the extent to which these lessons were actually embraced by the British public