On that moonlit night in October 1946, the dark clouds scudding above Nuremberg’s Palace Of Justice seemed to presage the fate of the condemned men within.
Over ten months and ten days, the testimony from almost 300 witnesses during the first and most high profile of the Nuremberg Trials had shocked the world by laying bare for the first time the full scale of the atrocities committed by the Nazi High Command.
Now, starting at the stroke of midnight, 11 of their number were about to be brought to account on the three black-painted scaffolds erected in the adjacent prison’s grimy gymnasium.
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