15/12/2023
The Nuremberg Trials, as recorded in history, took place from November 20, 1945, to October 1, 1946. The judges and public prosecutors in this historic trial came from the camp of the Allies (USA, UK, Soviet Union, France), and the defendants were 21 officials of the Nazi governments, from the armed forces, diplomacy, politics, and economics.
The courtroom was missing three of the original twenty-four defendants who had been included in the original indictment and were not to stand trial, as they had committed suicide before the end of the war: Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels.
In the radio documentary, researched and presented by Thomas Sideris, special emphasis is given to the shocking testimony of the last surviving prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, who was one of the legal-public prosecutors who substantiated the charges against the Nazis.
Finally, lawyer and professor at the Ionian University, Sotiris Livas, discusses the Nuremberg trials in the radio documentary.
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Silent Tracks: The People Behind the Holocaust is a 14 radio-documentaries about the Holocaust with oral testimonies and narratives, diaries and handwritten notes, through the traces of space and people. It is based on Thomas Sideris’ book of the same title.
[with Greek Audio]
Research-documentation-presentation: Thomas Sideris
Broadcast: Friday 22 December 2023, 13.00-14.00