| Source | Lüneburger Landeszeitung
with persmission of the Military Government |
| Event referred to | 20th of November 1945: Beginning of the Nuremberg Trial |
| Technological characteristics | TIFF picture 370 kb |
| Description of the source | The special edition of the Lüneburger Landeszeitung is a detailled report about the beginning of the Nuremberg trial as the first internationla court about war crimes.
It tells the procedure of the process: the accused, the accusations, the role of the international judges. |
| Contextualisation of the source | The text was published when the trial started. |
| Interpretation of the source | The report gives many information about the procedure of during the process. It tells crimes of the accused and informs the German public about many details. For mayn Germany those reports were the first time that they were confrontated with details of the war crimes and of the killing of people in the concentration camps. |
| Original Contents | Read the article. |
| Original Contents (English Translation) | Please read interpratation and describtion of the source to get an impression of the report. |
