Staging Nuremberg

With narrative flair, rigorous research, and unwavering focus, Lindeperg fleshes out in detail the Allies’ decision process—their steps and missteps—in staging the Nuremberg Trials. An essential work on the role of documentary in writing contemporary history, this book reconstructs the minute fragility and sense of opportunity felt by Americans and Soviets as they exerted their national and historical mission through film on the cusp of the Cold war. -- Ivone Margulies, author of In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema
Sylvie Lindeperg’s magisterial history of the International Military Tribunal demonstrates how justice and cinema emerge from the push and pull of documentary proof and dramatic stagecraft. Gripping, deftly constructed, and meticulously researched, Staging the Nuremberg Trials provides a much-needed analysis of the complex ways moving images give evidence form. -- Sam Di Iorio, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Staging the Nuremberg Trials presents a pathbreaking account of the struggle between American jurists and their Soviet counterparts over the use of film at Nuremberg. In so doing, it offers a fascinating meditation on how film serves both as documentary evidence in landmark prosecutions and as a vehicle through which conceptions of justice and memories of historic trials are constructed. -- Lawrence Douglas, author of The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice