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May 1945 and the leading Nazis have gone to ground all over Europe.

The top Nazis are behind bars – but they’re still in danger.

Do top Nazis deserve a trial? Or just summary execution? Or both?

These crimes are so enormous they need new words. Like genocide.

What’s it like to be told about a gas chamber for the first time?

Why did the SS need to order several thousand tons of cyanide gas?

Who will be indicted? Will they have lawyers? Will the courtroom ever be ready?

Everything conspires to delay the trial – but the Judges refuse to allow it.

Without simultaneous translation the trial cannot happen. It’s never been done before.

The Defendants seem untroubled until they’re shown footage from the camps.

How do you commit crimes like these? The Prison Psych needs to find out.

Goering enters the witness box. He has a whole new defence planned: martyrdom.

An ordinary man gives evidence. He killed 90,000 Jews. He wouldn’t disobey an order.

What does it take to get ordinary German people to acknowledge their guilt?

The Judges debate their verdicts: surely they’ll all hang?

11 will die, 7 imprisoned, 3 acquitted. And one more surprise on the night of the hangings

The story of the trial of Nazi war criminals following Germany's surrender in 1945.

The story of how Hitler led a fringe sect to be the dominant force in German politics.