Judgment at Nuremberg

Abby Mann’s drama Judgement at Nuremberg not only brought some of the worst Nazi atrocities to public attention, but has become, along with Elie Wiesel’s Night and Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl , one of the 20th century’s most important records of the Holocaust. Originally written as a 1957 television play, later made into an Academy Award-winning 1961 film, and available here in print (using the text of Mann’s Broadway adaptation), Judgement at Nuremberg is as potent and relevant as ever. To this day the Nuremberg trials stand as a model for international criminal tribunals, due in large measure to the spotlight thrown on them by Mann’s dramatic interpretation of the historic events.