70 years after the verdict was announced, this historical documentation describes what happened in and around the Nuremberg Trial for the first time from the perspective of prominent observers such as Erich Kästner, Erika Mann, Alfred Döblin, John Dos Passos, Ilja Ehrenburg, Elsa Triolet, Willy Brandt and Markus Wolf. Their reports are supplemented by eyewitnesses from Germany, the USA and France.