On November 20, 1945, 21 Nazi leaders stood in the dock in the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg at the beginning of the first of 12 trials. Eleven days later, all 21 were found guilty.
The Nuremberg Trials
is a fascinating account of the events of those 11 days, the accumulation and recounting of evidence and how those accused sought to justify crimes that, directly or indirectly, led to the deaths of more than 60 million people across the world.