Friday essay: the Nuremberg Trials at 80 – could such a reckoning ever happen again?
- Written by Jan Lanicek, Associate Professor in Modern European History and Jewish History, UNSW Sydney
In November 2025, cinemas worldwide will release Nuremberg, a courtroom drama directed by James Vanderbilt. The film focuses on the International Military Tribunal against 24 major Nazi war criminals (though two were ultimately not tried) and seven Nazi organisations – including the SS, the Gestapo and the general staff of the army –...
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