The Witness House: Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa during the Nuremberg Trials
A Holocaust, Nonfiction, World War II book. The true story of a villa in Nuremberg commandeered by the Americans immediately after the finish of WWII, where...
Autumn 1945 saw the start of the Nuremberg trials, in which high ranking representatives of the Nazi government were called to account for their war crimes. In a curious yet fascinating twist, witnesses for the prosecution and the defense were housed together in a villa on the outskirts of town. In this so-called Witness House, perpetrators and victims confronted each other in a microcosm that reflected the events of the high court. Presiding over the affair was the beautiful Countess Ingeborg Kálnoky (a woman so blond and enticing that she was described as a Jean Harlowe look-alike) who took great pride in...
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- Pages: 240 pages
- ISBN: 9781590513804 / 0
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This book was not what I was hoping for. It was sooooooo hard to get into. I love historical non-fiction and fiction alike, but this was probably the most boring non textbook I've ever read. The only reason for the 2 stars vs. 1 was that the book was well researched and I did learn a lot about the trials that I never knew. This book was well-written and the author managed to piece together a semblance of a narrative told in sequence. Due to the story being told several decades after the events at The Witness House occurred, there was a vague sense of incompleteness to the book. I was left wanting to know more about most of the key figures mentioned. It... The true story of a villa in Nuremberg commandeered by the Americans immediately after the finish of WWII, where witnesses for the Nuremberg Trials (trials held to determine the innocence or guilt of various Nazi officials for crimes against humanity) were housed. Due to the circumstances of the trials and the times, the persecuted...
