In Part 2 of The Trial of the Nazi Judges at Nuremberg, host Judge Stephen Sfekas traces the shift from the international IMT to the U.S.-run Nuremberg Military Tribunals. After debate over more international trials, Robert Jackson said no, and the Allies agreed each occupier would pursue justice in its own zone, opening the door for the American program in Nuremberg.

We explain how the NMTs widened accountability, including why rape didn’t appear as a stand-alone charge at the IMT and how evidence involving the Red Army and reports about French troops shaped those choices. We spotlight Telford Taylor, Jackson’s former deputy and later Chief of Counsel, who pursued sectoral prosecutions of doctors, judges and ministry lawyers, corporate leaders, and security officials. He recruited nearly 100 prosecutors, about ten percent women. Sadie Arbuthnot served on the Justice Trial, and Goetz was the only woman to speak in court in the I.G. Farben case.