The Nuremberg Women with Natalie Livingstone

Best-selling writer, and founder of the Cliveden Literary Festival. Natalie Livingstone's new book sheds new light on the Nuremberg trials through the stories of eight extraordinary women whose significance has long been overlooked.

Some are familiar names: journalist Rebecca West, sent to Nuremberg to write for The New Yorker; cabaret star turned anti-fascist war correspondent Erika Mann and British painter Laura Knight, commissioned to capture the atmosphere of Courtroom 600. Others have been largely forgotten. Among them are the Soviet interpreter Tatiana Stupnikova; Hungarian countess Ingeborg Kálnoky found herself presiding over a guest house in which perpetrators and survivors of the Nazi's worst crimes lived side by side; French communist and survivor of Auschwitz, Marie-Claude whose two hour testimony shook the courtroom and the world beyond it.

Together their stories reveal a Nuremberg rarely seen, a city of surveillance, dark allure and political tension, heavy drinking and moral ambiguity, where love affairs, trauma and the first tremors of the Cold War unfolded alongside the pursuit of justice.

At a special event with the JC, Natalie will reflect on her journey to uncover these women’s lives

Biography:

Sunday Times bestselling author Natalie Livingstone graduated with a first-class degree in history from Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1998. She began her career as a feature writer at the Daily Express and now con­tributes to Tatler, Harper’s Bazaar, US Vogue, Elle, The Times and Mail on Sunday.

Her first book The Mistresses of Cliveden, tells the story of five extraor­dinary women and a remarkable house and has been optioned for television. Her second book The Women of Rothschild was published in November 2021 and chronicles the women of a remarkable dynasty.

A sold-out event since its inception in 2017, Natalie is also the Founder and Chairman of Cliveden Literary Festival, renowned as a forum for lively discussion, innovative ideas, and political debate.