In 1947 a 27-year-old lawyer opened the largest murder trial in history — and called no witnesses. He didn't need any. The killers had kept receipts.

Thomas Cyr's The Nuremberg System argues that the postwar world rests on what its foreword calls a "load-bearing myth," and that the tribunal was not a court but "a ritual stage" where a new state religion was "consecrated with a blood sacrifice."

This independent summary and analysis takes that argument seriously — then tests it.

Yes, the tribunal was compromised. Yes, a judge from Stalin's regime sat on the bench while his government's own massacre vanished from the judgment. Concede all of it.

Then ask the question Cyr never answers: Poland had 3.3 million Jews in 1939. Where did they go?

Seven chapters. The full case, the real record, and the seven categories of evidence this book leaves out.

Read it before you decide.