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Establishing The Nuremberg Trials

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The idea that stands behind establishing the Nuremberg trials was to punish the losers of a war for perceived injustices and realized atrocities committed during a time of war. In the process of bringing those doers of harm to a swift justice by murdering them, we opened the gates to a new aspect of international engagement. The Nuremberg trials fragmented the glass casing of sovereignty around nation states by focusing justice on individual contributions. The traumas we experienced from both world wars inclined us to focus our attention to individual safety and autonomy. Nuremberg established that no matter how much a state argues about sovereignty, the world’s high moral keepers (or the most powerful nation states aka the P5+1) will bypass

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