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Carl Schmitt's Path to Nuremberg: A Sixty-Year Reassessment

2007 marks the sixtieth anniversary of Carl Schmitt's interrogations at Nuremberg. It has also been twenty years since Telos published the transcripts of what was presumed to be the complete three interrogations of him conducted by the prosecutor Robert M. W. Kempner in April 1947.¹ Through the vicissitudes of research, these historical and scholarly milestones have coincided with the discovery of new archival documentation on Schmitt and Nuremberg. Among the most surprising of these new discoveries is the transcript of a "fourth" interrogation of Schmitt that occurred on April 11, 1947, which apparently even Kempner had forgotten.² The uncovering of...