Intro -- The Nuremberg trials -- Key information -- Introduction -- Context -- How can we rule on war? -- Convictions of crimes in the Second World War -- Preparing the trial -- The list of defendants -- Key protagonists -- Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, British judge -- Robert H. Jackson, Supreme Court Justice -- Hermann Göring, Reichsmarschall -- Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and War Production of the Third Reich -- The Nuremberg trials -- The opening of the trials -- The hearings' proceedings -- A flood of revelations -- Soviet grey areas -- Deliberations -- The verdict -- The fate of those who were acquitted or imprisoned -- Impact -- International jurisdiction -- Defining crimes against humanity -- Summary -- Further reading.