Staging Nuremberg
How the United States and the Soviet Union Fought Over the Portrayal of Nazi Crimes
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- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2026
Summary
As victory in World War II drew near, the Allies decided to hold a major trial of Nazi leaders, which began in Nuremberg in November 1945. Conflict soon broke out between the United States and the Soviet Union over not only how to assess German guilt but also how to depict the trial. The Americans saw it as a judicial and media spectacle that would convey “the greatest moral tale ever told,” illustrated with Hollywood techniques. The Soviets, for their part, drew on extensive experience filmi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780231211994 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0231211996 |
| Author: | Sylvie Lindeperg, Claudia Gorbman |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Imprint: | Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
| Series: | Investigating Visible Evidence: New Challenges for Documentary |
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Critics Review
Lindeperg’s magisterial history of the International Military Tribunal demonstrates how justice and cinema emerge from the push and pull of documentary proof and dramatic stagecraft. Gripping, deftly constructed, and meticulously researched, Staging Nuremberg provides a much-needed analysis of the complex ways moving images give form to evidence. – Sam Di Iorio, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Staging Nuremberg presents a pathbreaking account of the struggle between American jurists and their Soviet counterparts over the use of film at Nuremberg. In so doing, it offers a fascinating meditation on how film serves both as documentary evidence in landmark prosecutions and as a vehicle through which conceptions of justice and memories of historic trials are constructed. – Lawrence Douglas, author of The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice
With narrative flair, rigorous research, and unwavering focus, Lindeperg fleshes out in detail the Allies’ decision process—their steps and missteps—in staging the Nuremberg Trials. An essential work on the role of documentary in writing contemporary history, this book reconstructs the minute fragility and sense of opportunity felt by Americans and Soviets as they exerted their national and historical mission through film on the cusp of the Cold War. – Ivone Margulies, author of In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema
After decades of scholarship on Nuremberg it takes considerable originality to make familiar material appear new. Lindeperg asks different questions from most of her predecessors and follows them with impressive persistence and intelligence. * Engelsberg Ideas *
Sylvie Lindeperg
Sylvie Lindeperg is professor of history at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne. She is the author of prizewinning books in French and the codirector or cowriter of documentary films. Her books in English translation include “Night and Fog”: A Film in History (2014).
Claudia Gorbman is professor emerita of film studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma, and has translated several books by Michel Chion.
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