Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II By Francine Hirsch. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 542. Cloth $34.95. ISBN: 978-0199377930.

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proposals for harsh police interventions against demonstrators. He also was willing to say, in the 1960s, that there were “no illegitimate interests,” a statement strikingly at odds with 1920s and Nazi notions of the Volksgemeinschaft’s single Gesamtinteresse. And he said he personally opposed proposed State of Emergency laws, another striking position for a traditional German conservative. He does seem to have changed in various ways that accorded with West Germany’s post-1965 pluralist democracy. Further exploration of how he changed and how he stayed the same, from 1925 till 1974, could be illuminating. Niklas Krawinkel’s account provides a solid assessment of Hans Gmelin’s activities under the Nazis, leading to the 2018 withdrawal of his honorary citizenship. With a different remit, Krawinkel might have placed Gmelin more broadly within twentieth-century German history.