The uneasy peace that has endured between the major powers since World War II has been kept not because of, but despite Nuremberg. Had the Nuremberg principles of the illegality of aggressive war been maintained as rigorously as many of their proponents would have liked, a world war could have started in Hungry, in the Middle East, in the Far East, or anywhere at all.
Biography of Adolf Hitler, discussing the reasons a foreign-born high school dropout was able to attain and wield such power over the German nation, with discussion of how his inadequacies caused Hitler to make fatal mistakes.
