All our images of Nuremberg are peopled by men: not one woman to be seen among the defendants, judges or prosecutors.

THERE IS NO question that the Nuremberg trial of 1945–46 (it lasted a year) was the Trial of the Twentieth Century, the pivot on which notions of justice and international law were thereafter to hang. It was in Courtroom 600 that charges of “crimes against humanity” and “crimes against peace” were first made against the top-rank Nazi defendants, and the term “genocide” first aired in public: sadly, these would go on to gain familiar coinage.

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