Meet the eclectic, brave women behind the Nuremberg Trial

As the granddaughter of Hungarian Holocaust survivors, British author Natalie Livingstone wasn’t just fascinated by World War II history, she was determined to excavate it.While negotiating the galleries inside London’s Imperial War Museum, she found herself beholding an arresting 6-foot oil painting simply titled “The Nuremberg Trial.” The defining artwork of the “trial of the century” depicts the desolate dock of Courtroom 600 inside the infamous Palace of Justice.In the haunting backdrop lies the occupied city in ruins, once considered the spiritual home of the Third Reich.The historian observed another striking detail: the staggering piece reveals a sea of stern, solemn and stricken figures including Nazi defendants, soldiers and lawyers — all of whom are men.But when she peered closer, Livingstone made out the tiny signature: Laura Knight, a celebrated 68-year-old female British artist who painted the scene from life.“There is not a single woman in the picture,” Livingstone told The Post.

“It’s a picture of the bloodiest catastrophe in human history with half of humanity painted out.”Livingstone knew that wasn’t the full picture and was determined to uncover the truth.It was that burning question that set the author on a four-year journey to produce her riveting new book, “The Nuremberg Women: The Untold Story of the Eight Women Who Brought the Nazis to Justice,” which shines a spotlight on the fascinating women, ignored by history, who were involved with the landmark post-WWII tribunals that prosecuted 21 Nazi war criminals.The eight wildly intriguing women profiled were more than mere witnesses to history — they shaped it.“In order to really understand Nuremberg, in order to really appreciate it from these women’s perspectives,” Livingstone said, “You’ve got to see it as an ecosystem.” That ecosystem included a brilliant American prosecutor who legally smoked notorious Nazi leaders; three hungry journalists with c...