Brandt's report on the Nuremberg trials is a defense document for the vast majority of the German population against the prejudices of foreign countries that all Germans are Nazis. Brandt compassionately describes the lives of Germans during the harsh winter of 1945/46, their hopes for the future, and their visions. "Forbrytere og andre tyskere" was published in 1946 in Oslo and Stockholm and is now available for the first time in German. Brandt viewed the war crimes trial as a necessity to address the rule of the National Socialists, the darkest chapter of German history. He distinguished between political responsibility, which affects all Germans in the Third Reich, and individual guilt, which must be legally determined. He was firmly against labeling all Germans as criminals and regretted that the victorious powers in Nuremberg did not include Germans.