Condensing an avalanche of documents and trial transcripts which reveal the horrific record of Hitler's twelve-year dictatorship, this book distills the evidence presented to the 1945–46 Nuremberg tribunal when former Nazi leaders were indicted and tried as war criminals. Whitney Harris's analysis uses verbatim accounts by key figures in the Nazi regime to tell the story of Hitler's rise to power, of Nazi planning and execution of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and of the final destruction of Nazi tyranny. It concludes with an explanation of the law of the case—the judicial process, law and war, and the precedent of Nuremberg. The final chapter ends with the adoption of the Rome Treaty of 1998 creating the permanent International Criminal Court.
First published by SMU Press in 1954, this book recounts the full story of the historic Nuremberg Trial, told in dramatic and accessible prose by a man who served throughout the trial as counsel on the staff of Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Chief of Counsel. Harris presented the evidence against the first of the Nuremberg defendants, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, as well as against the principal Nazi repressive agencies, the Gestapo and the SD.
"The great significance of Mr. Harris's book is the corroboration given to historians that this tragic story is borne out by facts proven in a case in court by directives signed and confirmed by the testimony of the key personalities who wrote the directives."—Lawrence D. Egbert, Saturday Review
"Dr. Harris must be congratulated for his brilliant volume."—New Republic
"Mr. Harris's book should get the widest possible reading."—Christian Science Monitor
"A masterly and meticulous condensation of the overwhelming number of documents at the disposal of the International Military Tribunal for the trial of the Nazi criminals in 1945–46. A book of enduring importance."—New York Times Book Review
In addition to serving as trial counsel at Nuremberg, WHITNEY R. HARRIS was an officer in the U.S. Navy throughout World War II, professor of law at Southern Methodist University, executive director of the American Bar Association, Solicitor General for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, and a practicing lawyer in Los Angeles, Dallas, and St. Louis. He and his wife make their home in St. Louis.
Tyranny on Trial
ISBN 0-87074-436-4 cloth $35.00
ISBN 0-87074-437-2 paper $19.95
6x9. 664 pp. 46 b&w photos. Bib. Index.
World War II. Political Science. International Law.
European History. Holocaust Studies.
Publication Date: October 1998.
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