Synopsis

This compelling account details the historic prosecution that commenced on November 20, 1945, holding Nazi Germany's leaders responsible for war crimes often justified by the defense of "following orders." The narrative centers on Hermann Göring, the trial's principal defendant, and Robert Jackson, the American prosecutor. It includes insights from Walter Cronkite, who reported on the proceedings, alongside a recounting of the events that culminated in the trial – a spectacle involving twenty-on