The Nuremberg Trials - A Personal History
£13.95
This is one of the most fascinating books about the
Nuremberg Trials that you are likely to encounter. It is
a
personal account by an internationally respected historian
who attended the Nuremberg Trials as a
young French observing lawyer.
Georges Bonnin recounts the story of the Nuremberg Trials
and how he was sitting only a couple of metres away from
Hermann Goering. He tells us of the conversations and
intrigue in the corridors, about the restaurants and
parties
attended, and about the gossip and the final judgements.
In addition he informs us of what turned out to be the
extraordinary circumstances of his capture and
imprisonment
by the Nazis in Caffarelli prison in Toulouse, and his
subsequent experiences as a prisoner in occupied France.
We learn about some of the activities of the resistance,
the cafés they would frequent and the signs and nods used
to
establish who was friend and who was foe.
The prostitutes, the lonely old men in seedy restaurants
eating their soup and trying not to be noticed, the food
packages passed through the prison railings and George’s
mouth-organ-playing fellow inmate whose silence on one
particular day signalled his having been transported
away to the death camps...
As a historian, a lawyer and prisoner of the Nazis
historically Georges Bonnin’s experiences and insights
are unique in providing us with an invaluable
first-hand account of these times.