The Trial of German Major War Criminals: proceedings of the International Military Tribunal sitting at Nuremberg Germany: part 21: 9th August,1946 to 21th August, 1946: taken from the official transcript, published by London: Under the authority of H.M. Attorney-General By His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1946, original, 15.5 cms x 25 cms x 2.2 cms, condition: very good.

The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries across Europe and atrocities against their citizens in World War II.

Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi Germany invaded many countries across Europe, inflicting 27 million deaths in the Soviet Union alone. Proposals for how to punish the defeated Nazi leaders ranged from a show trial (the Soviet Union) to summary executions (the United Kingdom). In mid-1945, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States agreed to convene a joint tribunal in Nuremberg, occupied Germany, with the Nuremberg Charter as its legal instrument.

Between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946, the International Military Tribunal tried twenty two of the most important surviving leaders of Nazi Germany in the political, military, and economic spheres, as well as six German organizations (all named in this publication).