Rebecca West

The trial was long and few journalists spent all their time covering the event. Many came and went. One of these was the New Yorker's Rebecca West. In this article, West describes what it was like to return to Nuremberg to hear the verdicts read. She also talks a little about what it was like to be a Jew covering the trial of those who had tried to murder her people, and what it was like for a woman in what she calls a "man's world."

It was the last two days of the Nuremberg trial that I went abroad to see. Those men who had wanted to kill me and my kind and who had nearly had their wish were to be told whether I and my kind were to kill them and why. Quite an occasion. But...