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Oct 31, 2026, 12:06 PM

At Nuremberg, women helped deliver justice. Men got the credit

Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, left, testifies about her ordeal in the concentration camps Ravensbruck and Auschwitz at the International Military Tribunals in Nuremberg, 1946. Erika Mann, at right, returned to Germany to cover the Nuremberg trials after fleeing the country in 1933. (National Archives, College Park, Maryland; Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection)

They stood up to Nazi leaders, documented the Holocaust and helped secure convictions. Then history largely wrote them out of the story of the Nuremberg tribunal

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Natalie Livingstone is the author of “The Nuremberg Women” (St. Martin's Press, November 2026).