“You can’t kill and maim with impunity”: the powerful legacy of Nuremberg

Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine. Hello and welcome back to the final one in our four-part History Extra podcast series about the Nuremberg War trials of 1945-46 and their aftermath. My name's Dave Musgrove and Our expert for this series is Philippe Sands, a writer and specialist in international law, whose books include East West Street and The Rat Line. So we have covered the story of the trial in some detail and explored some of the fascinating stories of what happened in that momentous event.

In this last episode, we're going to be exploring the legacy of the trial and its significant impact. on the history of international law and where we are today. So Philly, we've had a really interesting discussion about how things progressed to Nuremberg and immediately after it. One thing we haven't talked about so much is what was going on elsewhere in the world in terms of trials. There was a trial in Japan.

What was going on there and how does that tie into the story? Sure, a few months after the start of the Nuremberg trial, it was decided that there should also be a trial of crimes perpetrated by Japan. And so the Tokyo International Military Tribunal set up shop a few months after Nuremberg, worked in parallel, essentially applied the same crimes to crimes committed in the sort of Japanese sphere of influence. and the Japanese theatre. Was that supposed to be basically the equivalent to Nuremberg, the sa the same model?

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