Amann will research the women who participated in the Nuremberg Trials and other major criminal trials in the aftermath of World War II.
cagr, research fellow / Thursday, April 6, 2017
In November 1945 the trials of leading German officials before the International Military Tribunal began in Nuremberg, Germany. Fred Baer remembers attending the Nuremberg Trials and how the court was assembled by the allied nations.  
clip, male, war crimes trial, Fred Baer, nuremberg trial / Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Inaugural Breslauer, Rutman & Anderson Research Fellow Diane Marie Amann gave a public lecture at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research about her research on the little-known women involved in the Nuremberg Trials.
cagr / Friday, February 2, 2018
LOS ANGELES – April 26, 2017 – Scant attention has been paid to the key roles women played in the Nuremberg Trials that held Nazi perpetrators to account for their role in the Holocaust. This is the main focus of a dissertation by Diane Amann, associate dean at the University of Georgia School of Law. She will expand on her work in January 2018 when she comes as a fellow to conduct research at USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the University of Southern California.
/ Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Jack Robbins was a prosecutor for the United States during the Nuremberg Trials. Jack recalls how the trials were fair proceedings that led to justice and even helped advance international law.
clip, male, war crimes trial participant, jack robbins, Nuremberg Trials / Wednesday, February 19, 2014
During the trials, she worked as a research analyst. Her command of the English and German languages made her an invaluable resource to the prosecution.
Women at Nuremberg, Nuremberg Trials, Jane Lester / Monday, March 26, 2018
A public lecture by Diane Marie Amann (University of Georgia School of Law & PhD candidate in Law, Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands) 2017-2018 Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Research Fellow
cagr / Thursday, December 7, 2017
Belle Mayer of New York was a prosecutor on the team that tried I.G. Farben, one of Nazi Germany’s largest government contractors, which had a large stake in creating the Zyklon-B poison used in death-camp gas chambers.
Women at Nuremberg, Nuremberg Trials, Belle Mayer Zeck, Belle Mayer / Monday, June 11, 2018
As a lawyer at the Nuremberg Trials, Harriet Zetterberg made breakthrough discoveries. But as the only woman on the prosecutorial staff, she had to look on as male members of the team presented her work.
Women at Nuremberg, Nuremberg / Friday, May 4, 2018
Drawing on USC Shoah Foundation oral history videos, personal papers, and other sources, Dr. Diane Marie Amann's lecture situates stories of the unsung women who played vital roles at Nuremberg in the context of the Nuremberg trials themselves, international law, and the postwar global society. Diane Marie Amann is the inaugural 2017-2018 Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Research Fellow.
presentation, presentation, discussion, discussion, lecture, lecture, cagr, cagr / Thursday, February 1, 2018
Join Ashley K. Fernandes, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine for a webinar commemorating the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the Doctors Trial at Nuremberg, where physicians were placed on trial for their active participation in the labeling, persecution, and eventual mass murder of those deemed “lives unworthy of living.”
/ Tuesday, November 16, 2021
During a well-known case involving German industrialists who reaped enormous profits providing armaments to the Nazi regime with the help of slave labor at concentration camps, the defendants faced Cecelia Goetz -- the only woman ever to deliver an opening statement at the Nuremberg Trials.
Women at Nuremberg, Nuremberg Trials, Cecelia Goetz / Friday, May 18, 2018
Vivien Spitz describes her daily routine as a court reporter at the trial of Victor Brack, Karl Brandt and other SS doctors in Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-47.
clip / Thursday, September 8, 2016
As a court reporter who helped transcribe the historic trial against doctors accused of performing vile experiments, Vivien Spitz was struck by the resentment in the eyes of the defendants.
Women at Nuremberg / Tuesday, June 26, 2018
In this clip from her testimony, Jane Lester talks about the relative gender equality that existed in her work environment during the Nuremberg Trials.
clip, Nuremberg Trials, war crimes trial participant / Tuesday, March 27, 2018
USC Shoah Foundation’s associate director of research, Dan Leshem, participated in Cardozo School of Law’s Law and Film course taught by documentary filmmaker/historian Christian Delage on Sept. 29.
/ Tuesday, October 8, 2013
As an interpreter at Nuremberg, Edith Coliver had a front-row seat to many historic moments, such as the testimony of Hermann Göring, creator of the Gestapo.
Edith Coliver, Nuremberg Trials, GAM / Wednesday, April 4, 2018
In July 2020, Ben Ferencz, the last remaining Nuremberg prosecutor who died earlier this month, sat for a Dimensions in Testimony Education interview. Below are excerpts from the three-day conversation, which was released today.   On his Place of Birth
/ Monday, April 17, 2023
Charles Horskey was hired by the White House in November 1962, as an advisor to President John F. Kennedy. Charles reflects on how he was given the job after returning from the Nuremberg Trials and describes all the various projects he accomplished.
clip, male, JFK, war crimes trial participant, Charles Horsky / Thursday, November 21, 2013
In this clip from his 2020 testimony, 100-year-old Ben Ferencz, one of the chief prosecutors in the Nuremberg Trials, describes his daily exercise regimen, which includes a push up for each year of his age. March 11 Ben turned 101!
homepage / Thursday, March 11, 2021
In this lecture, Philippe Sands discusses his most recent book East West Street: On the Origins of 'Genocide' and 'Crimes Against Humanity' — part historical detective story, part family history, part legal thriller — to connect his work on 'crimes against humanity' and 'genocide', the events that overwhelmed his family in Lviv during World War II, and the untold story at the heart of the Nuremberg trial that pits lawyers Rafael Lemkin and Hersch Lauterpacht against Hans Frank, defendant number 7, former Governor General of Nazi-occupied Poland and Adolf Hitler's lawyer.
discussion, lecture, presentation, cagr / Monday, March 5, 2018
Experience USC Shoah Foundation's world-renowned Dimensions in Testimony interactive biographies, recently featured on 60 Minutes. Join this event to learn about USC Shoah Foundation and ask questions to Holocaust survivors powered by AI and fueled through technological innovation.
/ Tuesday, October 6, 2020
A handful of witnesses in the genocide trial against former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt appear in Pamela Yates’ film “500 Years,” but her cameras captured the entire proceeding. The case is considered a landmark in human rights law.
GAM / Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Philippe Sands, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London, gave a public lecture at the USC Gould School of Law focusing on his recent book "East West Street: On the Origins of 'Genocide' and 'Crimes Against Humanity'".
cagr / Wednesday, March 7, 2018
“Filming the Camps” explores the World War II experiences of Hollywood directors John Ford, George Stevens and Samuel Fuller.
cagr / Monday, August 7, 2017
A public lecture by Philippe Sands (University College London) Introduction by Prof. Hannah Garry (Director of USC Gould International Human Rights Clinic)
cagr / Thursday, December 14, 2017
A public lecture by Christian Delage (Director of the Institut D’Histoire Du Temps Présent, Paris)                    
cagr / Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Harry Reicher, USC Shoah Foundation’s first-ever Rutman Teaching Fellow, wrapped up his four-day fellowship today with a talk that revealed how exceptionally valuable the Visual History Archive will become to his teaching.
rutman teaching fellow, nuremberg laws / Thursday, July 24, 2014
Historian and filmmaker Christian Delage gave a public lecture at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research about different forms of testimony — in war crimes trials, oral history repositories, and documentary - and his recent project collecting interviews about the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris.
cagr / Tuesday, October 3, 2017

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