As part of events @chuarchives.bsky.social to mark #Nuremberg80 Tom Blackmore is talking today to students from around the world about his grandfather, prosecutor David Maxwell Fyfe, whose papers are there.
See 'Nuremberg: a new kind of justice?' online ⬇️
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See 'Nuremberg: a new kind of justice?' online ⬇️
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April 9, 2026 at 9:34 AM
As part of events @chuarchives.bsky.social to mark #Nuremberg80 Tom Blackmore is talking today to students from around the world about his grandfather, prosecutor David Maxwell Fyfe, whose papers are there.
See 'Nuremberg: a new kind of justice?' online ⬇️
www.chuarchivestories.uk/stories/nure...
See 'Nuremberg: a new kind of justice?' online ⬇️
www.chuarchivestories.uk/stories/nure...
📺 In Bayerischer Rundfunk’s Frankenschau, our Director Prof. Dr Christoph Safferling @safferli.bsky.social (at 3:40) reflects on the global legacy of the Nuremberg Trials — a lasting reminder that law must prevail over power.
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#Nuremberg80 #RuleOfLaw #NurembergAcademy
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Die Frankenschau vom 09.11.2025 - hier anschauen
80 Jahre Nürnberger Prozesse | Das Dokudrama 'Nürnberg 45' | Tapeten aus Hohenberg | Die Würzburger Festung | Leidenschaft Tierfotografie | Mit dem Tandem im Freilandmuseum
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November 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
📺 In Bayerischer Rundfunk’s Frankenschau, our Director Prof. Dr Christoph Safferling @safferli.bsky.social (at 3:40) reflects on the global legacy of the Nuremberg Trials — a lasting reminder that law must prevail over power.
🔗 Watch here: bit.ly/4hWXZ4s
#Nuremberg80 #RuleOfLaw #NurembergAcademy
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#Nuremberg80 #RuleOfLaw #NurembergAcademy
80 years ago today, the #NurembergTrials began, transforming the world’s response to atrocity and embedding a Jewish legacy of justice into modern human rights.
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From Atrocity to Accountability: The Jewish Legacy of the Nuremberg Trials - René Cassin
As we mark 80 years since the start of the Nuremberg Trials, we are reminded that law can serve very different purposes: it can be used to oppress and destroy, or to uphold rights and protect individu...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
80 years ago today, the #NurembergTrials began, transforming the world’s response to atrocity and embedding a Jewish legacy of justice into modern human rights.
🔗Read our blog
From Atrocity to Accountability - bit.ly/4p6lafe
#Nuremberg80 #Holocaust80 #HumanRights
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From Atrocity to Accountability - bit.ly/4p6lafe
#Nuremberg80 #Holocaust80 #HumanRights
'The letters..did you read the letters?' Nuremberg film star #RamiMalek describes how British prosecutor David Maxwell Fyfe shared intimate insights into the Trials each day as he wrote home to his wife Sylvia. Follow their story day to day for #Nuremberg80.
January 1, 2026 at 8:01 AM
'The letters..did you read the letters?' Nuremberg film star #RamiMalek describes how British prosecutor David Maxwell Fyfe shared intimate insights into the Trials each day as he wrote home to his wife Sylvia. Follow their story day to day for #Nuremberg80.
'I keep going around. I can’t pretend I have a dull time but it never feels like living.' #thisweek 1946 Sylvia Maxwell Fyfe expresses the personal sacrifice she feels at the separation from her husband David as the Trials drag on. #Nuremberg80
July 3, 2026 at 11:02 AM
'I keep going around. I can’t pretend I have a dull time but it never feels like living.' #thisweek 1946 Sylvia Maxwell Fyfe expresses the personal sacrifice she feels at the separation from her husband David as the Trials drag on. #Nuremberg80
#OnthisDay 1946 Nuremberg prosecutor David Maxwell Fyfe watched his US counterpart Robert Jackson cross-examine Goering. He had admired Jackson's opening speech but had misgivings that he would not go hard on the war crimes, what he calls the 'really deadly stuff'. #Nuremberg80
March 13, 2026 at 4:17 PM
#OnthisDay 1946 Nuremberg prosecutor David Maxwell Fyfe watched his US counterpart Robert Jackson cross-examine Goering. He had admired Jackson's opening speech but had misgivings that he would not go hard on the war crimes, what he calls the 'really deadly stuff'. #Nuremberg80
'What a frightful year you have had with never a normal moment - nobody but you could have taken it for so long without a break. In a letter #OTD 1946 Sylvia Maxwell Fyfe observes the personal sacrifice her husband David has made as lead prosecutor at the Trials. #Nuremberg80
July 8, 2026 at 7:01 AM
'What a frightful year you have had with never a normal moment - nobody but you could have taken it for so long without a break. In a letter #OTD 1946 Sylvia Maxwell Fyfe observes the personal sacrifice her husband David has made as lead prosecutor at the Trials. #Nuremberg80
'I am afraid that Ribbentrop did go into the witness box. I hope to start on him on Monday' #OTD 1946 David Maxwell Fyfe responds to a letter written to him by his wife Sylvia, revealing how close their letters were to a continuing conversation. #Nuremberg80
March 30, 2026 at 3:04 PM
'I am afraid that Ribbentrop did go into the witness box. I hope to start on him on Monday' #OTD 1946 David Maxwell Fyfe responds to a letter written to him by his wife Sylvia, revealing how close their letters were to a continuing conversation. #Nuremberg80
The program closes with a special video: multiple voices reading the opening page of Jackson's closing statement at Nuremberg, a final reflection on the questions this series has raised.
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After Nuremberg: What Do We Carry Forward?
Historians will reflect on how the Nuremberg Trials reshaped the global understanding of justice, responsibility, and the rule of law.
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September 22, 2026 at 4:54 PM
The program closes with a special video: multiple voices reading the opening page of Jackson's closing statement at Nuremberg, a final reflection on the questions this series has raised.
🔗 Register for the free Zoom webinar: roberthjackson.org/event/closing-ceremony
#Nuremberg80 #RobertHJackson
🔗 Register for the free Zoom webinar: roberthjackson.org/event/closing-ceremony
#Nuremberg80 #RobertHJackson
We walked the path through Campbell Park towards the Light Pyramid commissioned in 2012 to replace a basket beacon on top of the Belvedere. Lit for national occasions it naturally aligns with the sunrise on Midsummer Day lighting the Beacon for #Nuremberg80 as the sun rose.
September 21, 2026 at 4:14 PM
We walked the path through Campbell Park towards the Light Pyramid commissioned in 2012 to replace a basket beacon on top of the Belvedere. Lit for national occasions it naturally aligns with the sunrise on Midsummer Day lighting the Beacon for #Nuremberg80 as the sun rose.
#thisweek 80 years ago David Maxwell Fyfe made his only speech at Nuremberg Trials, catching a spark that lit a fuse that would burn with others to finally cause an explosion of freedom across Europe. This is the inspiration behind Dreams of Peace & Freedom. #Nuremberg80
August 27, 2026 at 7:01 AM
#thisweek 80 years ago David Maxwell Fyfe made his only speech at Nuremberg Trials, catching a spark that lit a fuse that would burn with others to finally cause an explosion of freedom across Europe. This is the inspiration behind Dreams of Peace & Freedom. #Nuremberg80
Our scrapbook accompanies performances of Dreams of Peace & Freedom and follows David Maxwell Fyfe's journey from Nuremberg to Strasbourg. These August pages offer excerpts from the transcript of his only speech at the Nuremberg Trials, made #thisweek 80 years ago. #Nuremberg80
August 26, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Our scrapbook accompanies performances of Dreams of Peace & Freedom and follows David Maxwell Fyfe's journey from Nuremberg to Strasbourg. These August pages offer excerpts from the transcript of his only speech at the Nuremberg Trials, made #thisweek 80 years ago. #Nuremberg80
'Tolerance, decency, kindliness.' 80 years ago #thisweek leading British prosecutor David Maxwell Fyfe outlined what he wished to see 'in place of the Nazi spirit' in his only speech at the Nuremberg Trials. He went on to champion and draft ECHR. #Nuremberg80
August 25, 2026 at 7:01 AM
'Tolerance, decency, kindliness.' 80 years ago #thisweek leading British prosecutor David Maxwell Fyfe outlined what he wished to see 'in place of the Nazi spirit' in his only speech at the Nuremberg Trials. He went on to champion and draft ECHR. #Nuremberg80
'The law is a living thing... it must grow & change to meet the changing needs of society' 80 years ago #thisweek David Maxwell Fyfe made his only speech at the Nuremberg Trials lighting a fuse that would explode into freedom across post WWII Europe. #Nuremberg80
August 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
'The law is a living thing... it must grow & change to meet the changing needs of society' 80 years ago #thisweek David Maxwell Fyfe made his only speech at the Nuremberg Trials lighting a fuse that would explode into freedom across post WWII Europe. #Nuremberg80
'Sweetheart once again continents of love, Your very loving David' David Maxwell Fyfe signs a letter to Sylvia #OTD 1946. Letters they exchanged during his year at Nuremberg are an intimate record of the Trials as well as a testament to their love for each other. #Nuremberg80
August 23, 2026 at 3:01 PM
'Sweetheart once again continents of love, Your very loving David' David Maxwell Fyfe signs a letter to Sylvia #OTD 1946. Letters they exchanged during his year at Nuremberg are an intimate record of the Trials as well as a testament to their love for each other. #Nuremberg80
The letters exhanged between Sylvia & David Maxwell Fyfe whilst he was at Nuremberg are all @chuarchives.bsky.social Cambridge. This envelope is from a letter posted #thisweek 1946 when his family were all away together on holiday on the Isle of Wight. #Nuremberg80
August 23, 2026 at 7:00 AM
The letters exhanged between Sylvia & David Maxwell Fyfe whilst he was at Nuremberg are all @chuarchives.bsky.social Cambridge. This envelope is from a letter posted #thisweek 1946 when his family were all away together on holiday on the Isle of Wight. #Nuremberg80
'I shall have to look out. The readiness for disillusionment is with us again.' #thisweek 1946 David Maxwell Fyfe takes a warning from a novel he is reading about disillusion after WWI. 'All the zip had gone out of the characters' #Nuremberg80
August 22, 2026 at 7:01 AM
'I shall have to look out. The readiness for disillusionment is with us again.' #thisweek 1946 David Maxwell Fyfe takes a warning from a novel he is reading about disillusion after WWI. 'All the zip had gone out of the characters' #Nuremberg80
'I was overjoyed to receive your wonderful letter... It was a great light in my darkness.' #thisweek 1946 David
Maxwell Fyfe reveals the importance of the correspondence with Sylvia - a comforting antidote to the daily horrors of hearing evidence. #Nuremberg80
Maxwell Fyfe reveals the importance of the correspondence with Sylvia - a comforting antidote to the daily horrors of hearing evidence. #Nuremberg80
August 21, 2026 at 11:02 AM
'I was overjoyed to receive your wonderful letter... It was a great light in my darkness.' #thisweek 1946 David
Maxwell Fyfe reveals the importance of the correspondence with Sylvia - a comforting antidote to the daily horrors of hearing evidence. #Nuremberg80
Maxwell Fyfe reveals the importance of the correspondence with Sylvia - a comforting antidote to the daily horrors of hearing evidence. #Nuremberg80
'Oh darling, I do love your letters so. They do me such a lot of good.' #OTD 1946 Sylvia Maxwell Fyfe echoes David's sentiments of the importance of their correspondence during his year away. Their affectionate continuing conversation kept them close while apart. #Nuremberg80
August 20, 2026 at 11:02 AM
'Oh darling, I do love your letters so. They do me such a lot of good.' #OTD 1946 Sylvia Maxwell Fyfe echoes David's sentiments of the importance of their correspondence during his year away. Their affectionate continuing conversation kept them close while apart. #Nuremberg80
'I must go. I shall perhaps hear your voice at the weekend. All my love forever' Letters exchanged between David Maxwell Fyfe & his wife Sylvia offering a uniquely intimate record of the Nuremberg Trials became less frequent as telephone contact became more reliable. #Nuremberg80
August 19, 2026 at 11:02 AM
'I must go. I shall perhaps hear your voice at the weekend. All my love forever' Letters exchanged between David Maxwell Fyfe & his wife Sylvia offering a uniquely intimate record of the Nuremberg Trials became less frequent as telephone contact became more reliable. #Nuremberg80
'I have to thank you for 2 marvellous letters which made such a difference to the last two days.' In his last month at Nuremberg David Maxwell Fyfe repeats once more the importance to him of his correspondence with his wife during his year away. #Nuremberg80
August 18, 2026 at 11:02 AM
'I have to thank you for 2 marvellous letters which made such a difference to the last two days.' In his last month at Nuremberg David Maxwell Fyfe repeats once more the importance to him of his correspondence with his wife during his year away. #Nuremberg80
'I shall have to look out. The readiness for disillusionment is with us again.' #OTD 1946 David Maxwell Fyfe takes a warning from a book he is reading about disillusion after WWI, recognising a repetition of the signs. #ListentoLetters #Nuremberg80
August 17, 2026 at 3:03 PM
'I shall have to look out. The readiness for disillusionment is with us again.' #OTD 1946 David Maxwell Fyfe takes a warning from a book he is reading about disillusion after WWI, recognising a repetition of the signs. #ListentoLetters #Nuremberg80
'It was an eerie sensation having nothing to do' #OnThisDay 1946 David Maxwell Fyfe writes to Sylvia of a rare walk he took alone in 'the main street outside the courts' as the Nuremberg Trials draw to a close. #Nuremberg80
August 17, 2026 at 11:02 AM
'It was an eerie sensation having nothing to do' #OnThisDay 1946 David Maxwell Fyfe writes to Sylvia of a rare walk he took alone in 'the main street outside the courts' as the Nuremberg Trials draw to a close. #Nuremberg80
'We have finished our work on the Organisations including the speech.' #OnThisDay 1946 David Maxwell Fyfe breaks the unwelcome news to Sylvia that he will not be home before the end of August because of the timing of his speech. #Nuremberg80
August 15, 2026 at 11:01 AM
'We have finished our work on the Organisations including the speech.' #OnThisDay 1946 David Maxwell Fyfe breaks the unwelcome news to Sylvia that he will not be home before the end of August because of the timing of his speech. #Nuremberg80
'I was most tremendously interested in it. I feel sure nobody in this country has thought or know about these facts before.' #thisweek Sylvia Maxwell Fyfe receives David's article 'The Inefficiency of the Nazis' - a radical counter to current popular thinking. #Nuremberg80
August 13, 2026 at 11:01 AM
'I was most tremendously interested in it. I feel sure nobody in this country has thought or know about these facts before.' #thisweek Sylvia Maxwell Fyfe receives David's article 'The Inefficiency of the Nazis' - a radical counter to current popular thinking. #Nuremberg80