Nuremberg

Christian Delage, historian and filmmaker, answers questions from Justice Info about the Nuremberg trials and the role of images in international trials, in an in-depth interview. Illustration: portrait of Delage by Benoît Peyrucq.

Nuremberg: “Judges were no longer seated in the centre, as the screen was placed there”

20 November 2025 by Clémentine Méténier

Eighty years ago, on November 20, 1945, the Nuremberg trials began. French historian and filmmaker Christian Delage explains how this tribunal revolutionized how courts can use images.

Benjamin Ferencz, young prosecutor at the Nuremberg trial

Benjamin Ferencz: the man who sought peace through law

13 April 2023 by Olivier Beauvallet

Benjamin Ferencz, the last living Nuremberg Tribunal prosecutor died in the night of April 7 to 8 at the age of 103. French magistrate Olivier Beauvallet, who worked on the French edition of his autobiography, pays tribute with a [...]

Frederick Flick (owner of the Flick company) stands during his sentencing at the Nuremberg trial in Germany.

Germany

In Nuremberg, “we started to judge company executives and managers”

12 September 2022 by Clémentine Méténier

Historian and sociologist Guillaume Mouralis, who works on the history of legal practices in post-conflict situations, looks back at the pivotal moment of the Nuremberg Trials, which judged corporate executives at the end of the S [...]

Sign, during a demonstration, reading

Ukraine

A Nuremberg for Russia’s crime of aggression?

22 April 2022 by Janet H. Anderson

As the debates continue on the international legal response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, our correspondent Janet Anderson has taken some soundings from a range of international law and other experts. Central to the discussi [...]

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