The Writers' Castle: Reporting History at Nuremberg

Name: The Writers' Castle: Reporting History at Nuremberg
Author: Uwe Neumahr
ISBN: 9781805330714

by Uwe Neumahr

ISBN: 9781805330714

Published: 2025-11-04

Biography & Autobiography

A gripping new approach to the Nuremberg Trial, told through the stories of the many great writers who came to witness it “A riveting group portrait that puts these celebrity reporters in the spotlight... An engaging blend of gossipy anecdote and precise, thought-provoking analysis” — Financial Times Nuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war criminals begin, some of the world's most famous writers and reporters gather in the ruined German city. Among them are Rebecca West, John Dos Passos, Martha Gellhorn, Erika Mann and Janet Flanner. Crammed together in the press camp at Schloss Faber-Castell, where reporters sleep ten to a room and complain about the food and argue in the lively bar, they each try to find words for the unprecedented events they are witnessing. Here, tensions simmer between Soviet and Western journalists, unlikely affairs begin, stories are falsified and fabricated—and each reporter is forever changed by what they experience. As Uwe Neumahr builds an engrossing...

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