Nuremberg’s Forgotten Women Helped Build the Case Against Nazi Crimes
Historian Natalie Livingstone argues that women helped shape the Nuremberg trials but were largely written out of their familiar history. In her book *The Nuremberg Women*, she traces the work and experiences of eight women, from lawyer Harriet Zetterberg, whose case against a Nazi official was presented by a male colleague, to French Resistance survivor Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, whose testimony brought the camps’ atrocities before the court. Livingstone says their stories illuminate both the limits placed on women’s authority and the trials’ insistence on evidence and truth.
Hoover Institution·Nov 3, 2026·9 min read
