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The Nuremberg Woman by Natalie Livingstone
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5

What a phenomenal and and vital read!

Below are the eight woman featured in this book who played important, yet forgotten roles during the Nuremberg trials...

HARRIET ZETTERBERG The American lawyer

ERIKA MANN The German activist

INGEBORG KÁLNOKY The Hungarian countess

💗MARIE-CLAUDE VAILLANT-COUTURIER The French Auschwitz survivor

LAURA KNIGHT The British painter

TATIANA STUPNIKOVA The Russian interpreter

URSULA VON KARDORFF The German journalist

REBECCA WEST The British writer

The author has Meticulously and respectfully researched each woman, and each of their roles during the trials were fascinating.

I put a heart next to MARIE-CLAUDE VAILLANT-COUTURIER The French Auschwitz survivor because her contribution to the trial was pivitol and heartbreaking. She spent two hours on the stand detailing the horrifying realities of Auschwitz. Her testimony offered first-hand, eyewitness documentation that helped legally establish the concept of "crimes against humanity". Yet her primary motivation was to restore names to those who had been reduced to numbers 💗

✒️The author states in her epilogue ...𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙩 𝙉𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙜, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙖 𝙜𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙞𝙢𝙗𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙖 𝙉𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚, 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙖𝙯𝙖𝙧𝙙; 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙙. 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨, 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙘𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮.

It was a privilege to get to know these women better..

I'm now trying to haul myself out of the google rabbit hole this book has sent me down!

⁉️I love reading about strong and incredible women. Who is your favourite female literary character?

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A million thanks to @rachelnevin_comms for my copy of this incredible book

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$AD▪︎PR The Nuremberg Women by Natalie Livingstone Thank you @rachelnevin_comms and @johnmurray for reaching out to offer me a GIFTED copy of The Nuremberg Women by Natalie Livingstone, to read and review. Eighty years after the International Military Tribunal, or trial, took place it offers a gripping account of one of the defining events of the twentieth century, focusing on eight extraordinary women who witnessed, documented, prosecuted, or participated in the proceedings. We see this monumental historical event through their eyes. The breadth and depth of Natalie Livingstone's research is immense, and her story-telling is utterly compelling, making this book an incredibly well-written, engaging, interesting and thought-provoking read. It gives an understanding of what the trial was like with all the legal and historical issues of that time, and her vividly rendered impressions make you feel like you're there, witnessing it at first hand. We gain a strong grasp of the vitally important legacy of the Trial too. How it would lead to a definition offering a legal basis for future prosecutions, and the subsequent introduction of genocide, and crimes against humanity, to international legal frameworks via the United Nations. Inevitably this is a very difficult, tough and emotional read in places. The testimony of Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, in Chapter 4, was a defining moment for the trial. It is especially emotional, haunting and damning, and will stay with me for ever. Other incredibly important historical perspectives are gained during the trial too, including the growing fracture between the east and the west, leading to the Cold War. And then of course, there are the women themselves, whom we come to know so well through their respective chapters: their Nuremberg experiences, their lives before the trial, and, equally as importantly, afterwards. This is a truly powerful, thought-provoking and highly readable biography, redressing the balance, and giving sidelined women their due - and a voice - in the history of these landmark trials. Highly recommended. Erika Mann: A German-born exiled anti-fascist journalist and daughter of Thomas Mann who$

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