Description
The first edition of Nuremberg: German Views of the War Trials, edited by Wilbourn E. Benton and Georg Grimm.
Octavo, vii, [1], 232pp. Black cloth, title stamped in red print on the spine. The first printing, with no additional printings noted. Top edge dyed red. Previous owner’s name in blue pen on the front pastedown. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $4.00 retail price on front flap, touch of shelf wear, light sunning to the spine, a very good example.
A collection of German legal and scholarly responses to the Nuremberg trials, with selected articles by German professors and lawyers translated into English. Published a decade after the trial of the Major German War Criminals, the work documents contemporary German criticism, defense arguments, and legal interpretations of the Allied war-crimes proceedings.
