Establishing The Nuremberg Trials

series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany was a milestone in establishing a form of international justice as well as an international court of law. In these trials specifically, it was held to indict Nazi Party officials and high ranking officers for their crimes against humanity during World War II. The four superpowers at the time, USA, France, Britain, and Russia came together, even though each had their justice system and litigation. The idea behind the Nuremberg Trials was to constitute

helped with different parts of the Holocaust after World War II ended? Well, I thought about it and I did some research about the famous trials that happened between the years 1945 through 1949. These trials were made up after a man by the name of Adolf Hitler wanted world domination and he treated the jews horribly. This event solved a lot of problems from establishing an International Court and knowing what to do with the men that helped Hitler with the Holocaust. The charges were among many things

One possible idea that stood behind establishing the Nuremburg trials was to implement the first tribunal where leaders of brutal war crimes and calculated atrocities against humanity were given the chance to go through the judicial process and prove their case in court, with judges from the opposing side presiding over the trials. A majority of the Allied powers and countries invaded by Nazi Germans preferred summary executions of the Nazi leaders because they considered their crimes to be beyond

problematic for three reasons. First, nothing guarantees that as a belligerent concludes acts of war that it has any intention whatsoever of establishing peace. Second, the victor enjoys the privilege of deciding what constitutes genocide or mass violence. Finally, the possibility always exists of atrocities committed by the victor. Ultimately, in the Nuremberg Trial, the victor retained the prerogative to determine that the wrongs performed by the Nazis were “so calculated, so malignant and so devastating

Supreme Court of United States, criticized the Nuremberg trials before, the idea that stands behind establishing the Nuremberg trials was a “conviction” or “revenge” for German by victorious nations. This trial was not an actual trial that we can see in the domestic courts nowadays. Rather, its legitimacy was quite suspicious because of some reasons. First, the laws which were applied to the trials were mainly established after the war. The trials were done under the Charter of the International

humanity. The Rome Statute which is the legal basis for establishing the permanent International Criminal Court was approved on 17th July 1998 but it was not until almost four years later on 1st July 2002 that the International Criminal Court came into force (Swoboda). The creation of the permanent international court was not an abrupt process but rather a culmination of events that

The Influence of the Nuremberg Trials on International Law The Nuremberg Trials were a critical point in the history of international law because it established the fact that humanity has the need of an international shield to shelter and protect. This event was responsible for contributing in the ongoing process of developing rules that are binding between states and nations also known as international laws. The judgment of the trials may be one of the most important events in the history of

When first establishing the Nuremburg IMT and before any legal action could be taken against the accused there were several legal and technical complications to overcome first. The first problem encountered by the Allies was the fact that there had never before been a precedent for an international trial of war criminals. Of course, there had been earlier instances of war crimes, but these trials were conducted not on an international level rather they

in May of 1945, the Allied governments entered into a joint agreement establishing the International Military Tribunal for the purpose of trying those responsible for the war atrocities. Whereas some 5,000 Nazi’s were charged with war crimes, the Nuremberg trials were designed specifically to prosecute high ranking Nazi officials with whom the authority for the commission of heinous atrocities rested. The Nuremberg Trials would therefore be marked in history as one of its kind. Prior to its formation

Conflict in Syria There are war crimes being committed in Syria. The conflict started during 2011 Arab Spring protests. The country has been crippled by a brutal civil war ever since. The violence has reached terrifying proportions. According to local Syrian groups, as of February 2016, the conflict’s death toll topped 470,00 people, including more than 100,000 civilians.(The New York Times) Even the lowest estimates place the number in the hundred-thousands. About 7.6 million people are internally