The Blogs: At Nuremberg, women helped deliver justice. Men got the credit | Natalie Livingstone

In an opinion essay adapted from her book 'The Nuremberg Women,' author Natalie Livingstone argues that women played crucial but uncredited roles at the 1946 Nuremberg trials, serving as prosecutors, journalists, translators and witnesses. She highlights Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier's testimony about Auschwitz and Harriet Zetterberg's work building the case against Hans Frank, among others.

In an opinion essay adapted from her book 'The Nuremberg Women,' author Natalie Livingstone argues that women played indispensable but largely forgotten roles at the 1946 Nuremberg trials. She highlights Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, a French resistance member and Auschwitz survivor whose testimony brought the Holocaust into the legal record; Harriet Zetterberg, a Yale-educated prosecutor who built the case against Hans Frank but was barred from speaking in court due to her gender; journalist Erika Mann; interpreter Tatiana Stupnikova; and others. Livingstone writes that the traditional story of Nuremberg as a room full of men is 'wildly misleading' and that women worked as researchers, prosecutors, journalists, translators and witnesses. The piece frames their work as a model of hope and truth-telling relevant to contemporary denial and distortion.