Spotlighting the women of the Nuremberg trials
When historian and author Natalie Livingstone noticed that women were missing from the records of the Nuremberg Trials, she decided to do something about it.
Historian and author Natalie Livingstone is shining a light on the women whose work helped expose Nazi crimes at the Nuremberg trials, arguing that many of their stories have long been overlooked in mainstream accounts of history.
Livingstone’s new book, The Nuremberg Women, examines the lives of eight women connected to the post-war trials, including journalists, interpreters, lawyers and Holocaust survivors whose contributions helped shape public understanding of Nazi atrocities.
The trials, held in the German city of Nuremberg between November 1945 and October 1946, prosecuted leading Nazi figures including Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Rudolf Hess. Nuremberg itself had earlier become synonymous with Nazi propaganda rallies and the antisemitic Nuremberg Laws.
Speaking to Jewish News UK, Livingstone said the idea for the book began after she saw British artist Dame Laura Knight’s famous painting of Courtroom 600 at the Imperial War Museum.
“The more familiar I became with the image, the more I found it impossible to see beyond a glaring absence. There is not a single woman in the picture.”
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