A trial always ends abruptly – the verdict may be eagerly awaited but once delivered there is nothing left for the lawyers or judges to do. In the case of the Nuremberg war crime trials after ...

Twenty-two of the indicted men eventually sat in the dock in the Nuremberg courtroom. Three of the defendants escaped trial: industrialist Gustav Krupp, who was too frail; Hitler's private ...

Although the League of Nations and other international meetings had used simultaneous interpretation prior to the trials at Nuremberg, its successful use there in 1945 gave the method new importance.