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The episode discusses the lasting legal and moral implications of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials.

In the courtrooms of Nuremberg and Tokyo, the victorious Allies declared that civilisation must not merely win wars but also judge them, leaving a legal and moral legacy that persists to this day. Read by Leighton Pugh. Image: The defendants at the Nuremberg Trial in 1946. Credit: PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive.

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