What should we do with the Nazis? The road to the Nuremberg Trials

Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine. Hello and welcome to this four-part History Extra podcast series all about the Nuremberg trials of 1945 to 1946. My name is Dave Musgrove and I am delighted to be joined by Philippe Sands, a writer and specialist in international law, whose books include East West Street and the Rat Line, 38 Londres Street and The Last Colony. In this first episode, we'll be exploring how following the carnage of the Second World War, the stage was set for the largest war crimes trial in history.

Philippe, welcome to the podcast. Thank you for joining us. How are you? Terrific to be with you on not only a largest war crimes trial, but the first war crimes trial for a historic moment was Nuremberg in many ways, as we'll discuss.

Absolutely, yes. And we will, we will tackle that as we go along. So kicking things off, VE Day was the 8th of May 1945 and the Nuremberg war trial started in November 45. So hardly any time between those two events. How did we get from the end of the war to the prosecution of the trial?

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