About this episode

This episode delves into the motivations and beliefs of the defendants in the Nuremberg Trials, exploring their connections to contemporary politics.

Find the similarities with today's politics at your own risk ... but this is as close we get to understanding the inner workings of the defendants in the Nuremberg trial - Hans Frank, Herman Göring, Albert Speer, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Rudolf Hess, Julius Streicher, Alfred Rosenberg - what drove them, and did they still believe in the Nazi cause towards the end of the trial? Where we are going in and really digging deep into this is at a time when the trial has lasted for a long time, and the n...

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Host: Francis Lundh

Topics covered

• Nuremberg Trials
• Nazi Germany
• political psychology
• historical analysis
• war crimes
• defendants' beliefs

Keywords

• Nuremberg Trials
• Nazi defendants
• politics
• historical context
• war crimes
• psychology

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