I wonder if anyone has attempted to dip into this enormous book,
The History of Protestantism
by James A. Wylie (1808-1890)?
It is available free online and for pdf download, here:
http://www.reformation.org/wylie2.html
Also you can inspect and search the chapters here:
http://www.doctrine.org/history/
If you search for 'Nuremberg', there is a description of the torture chambers, which the author toured while researching the book. It makes very grim reading.
Today, it was announced that three Arabic-speaking BBC journalists (of different nationalities) were apprehended and held for 21 hours in Libya, giving them a ghastly insight into what others are suffering for political freedom with no hope of 'escape' apart from the whim of their persecutors, or eventual death. Hearing a tiny bit of what they heard and saw brings the History of Protestantism into focus, and the necessity of burning for Christ.