Nuremburg Trials During The Winter Semester

The Nuremberg Trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany from the 20th of November 1945 to the 1st of October 1946, 24 of the Nazi leaders were tried for their crimes against humanity, however only 22 trials were officially carried out due to Robert Ley committing suicide and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen deemed unfit for trial before their hearing. It was considered to be controversial as all Nazi officials at one time claimed that they were simply following orders from a higher power and that they weren’t to blame for their crimes because they were acting in self defence. Hermann Göring also committed suicide the day before his scheduled execution. Also a few of Hitler’s accomplices committed suicide before they had a chance to be trialled. These adjustments to the expected outcome of the Nuremberg Trials caused controversy amongst everyone who knew of the Nazi’s treatment of others, especially Jews. There was also some bias towards the Nazi party from the people conducting the trial as they were mostly from Allied descent and had personal reasons to persecute Nazis simply because they were Nazis without fairly considering their crimes against humanity.

Most people know of Hitler being the leader of the nazis and “leading” the war on Jews, but in documents it states that he justedx signed off on it because it was brought up by one of his second in command and one of his most trusted people, but before he could be put on trial Hitler ended his life in his bunker so that he couldn't be captured. So the Nuremberg trials consisted of Rudolf Hess, Joachim Freiherr, Dr. Wilhelm Frick, Heinrich Himmler and many more these names are just some of the biggest because they were all his most trusted comrades. All together they were charged with the genocide of Jews, gypsies, gays, and many more. They were also charged with crimes against peace by invading other countries and taking total control of them, they were also charged with crimes against humanity because of the gruesome and awful ways they treated people and how they killed people and they were also charged with conspiracy to commit such crimes all of these charges are major charges mainly resulting in the death penalty due to the nature of the crimes the only one that wasn't worth the death penalty was the conspiracy to commit because they had planned on what they were doing and hadn't even started it yet. Making this one of the many ways that helped them figure there death toll for the Jews. All of these men were killed because of their crimes and for the role they had in the mass

Therefore, also ending the Holocaust. Also they emptied the camps and used many of them for hospitals. "The survivors were placed in displaced persons facilities." "In 1946 at Nuremberg, Nazi leaders are tried for war crimes by the above Judicial assembly." Many victims of theses harsh crimes, were now mentally, emotionally, and some, physically unstable. Whoever were affected by the Holocaust, and lived to tell about it, were traumatized for life. No one has ever been able to fully understand the effects this left on people if they didn't experience it for themselves.

According to Justice Lawrence, author, the purpose of the Nuremberg Trials, later known as the Doctor’s Trial, was to “not only the punishment of those who were guilty but the establishment of the supremacy of international law over national law and proof of the actual facts” (Lawrence, p. 153) of the atrocious mass genocide known now as the Holocaust. This means that point of these trials were not only to punish the murderous doctors but also to show the world that international law is the highest form of power. A separate form of trials initially took place in Germany, however, it was a “farce” according to Lawrence. “The majority got off and such sentences as were inflicted were derisory and were soon remitted” (Lawrence, p. Yo27153). Due to the growing tension between the German court of law and other countries the Doctor’s Trial was then moved to Nuremberg, and the evidence was eventually over-turned to the United States who would eventually indict 23 doctors on a number of crimes

Have you ever wondered or thought about what happened to the Nazis that 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 but mostly crimes against hummanity was the most used charge. There was also a lot of controversy about the laws that were made in the court and before the trials even

The Nuremburg Trials were trials held by allied forces to accuse a system of government for war crimes after World War II. These crimes dealt with invading nations, violating the Treaty of Versailles, and primarily “crimes against humanity.” They were later known as the Holocaust, where many victims were deported, enslaved, and executed. The victims of the Holocaust were primarily Jewish, Polish, Gypsies, and handicapped elderly who were considered dangerous. The International Military Tribunal, called the prosecutors consisted of lawyers and judges from the United States, France, and Soviet Union. The purpose of the trial was to decide how to prosecute the judges that did not do their job of serving justice to a multitude of innocent individuals

News of the millions of people that had been slaughtered were the headlines on newspapers all over the world. Photos of the starved dead bodies of Holocaust victims were released for all to see. Trials were held by the Allied countries against Nazi Party officials for “crimes against humanity.” Many of the officers were executed, including some of Hitler’s right-hand men. Many Nazi soldiers were never caught and put on trial, and the search for those tied to doing such barbaric things still continues on today. However, the lead man in this terrible plan escaped. Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, had allegedly committed suicide on April 30, 1945. Germany had been left without a leader, having freshly lost World War II, with the atrocities of what their fascistic government had done exposed. The Germans themselves were speechless and ashamed when they found out the truth of what their Führer (Hitler’s title) and his government had done. Museums, books, and films have been made to help spread the word of the Holocaust. Monuments have been constructed so that we never forget the atrocities that these innocent human beings suffered. But sadly as the years go by, more and more people don’t know about the Holocaust. Even worse, many are pretending like it didn’t happen. But it did happen and eleven million people died because of it. Some victims of the Holocaust, like Anne Frank,

In Nuremburg, Germany, 13 trials were held in order to bring justice to Nazi war criminals from 1945 to 1949. The United States, France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union contributed to the persecution of 22 Nazi Criminals in which 12 were sentenced to death. Nazi Party officials, high-ranking military officers, German industrialists, lawyers, and doctor’s defendants were charged with crimes against peace and humanity for their treacherous persecution of German-Jewish people and other horrid things the Axis Powers took part of. The crimes started very shortly after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party created strategies to persecute the German-Jewish people along with others who were an alleged

When the war finally ended after six long years, the was fell into a period of complete and utter chaos. So many people were so angry, shocked and horrified that they didn’t know where to begin. After dealing with the initial problem of helping the victims in the concentration camps, many people wanted to find the people who were responsible and make them pay. This is where the Nuremberg Trials come into the picture. The Nuremberg Trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany in 1945 and 1946 where Nazis were put on trial for their role in the Holocaust.

The question of: “To what extent were the Nuremberg Trials fair?” is important because it evaluates whether the justice system was successful, unbiased, and fair; instead of vengeance for the Allied nations. The scope of the investigation is during the Nuremberg Trials that occurred after World War II and including the recent trials that are still being uncovered and investigated. One way to support that the trials were biased is the examination of the article: The Holocaust and the Nuremberg Trials, which gives the first-hand experience of Benjamin Ferencz, an investigator of the Nuremberg Trials and was assigned the role of Chief Prosecutor during the trials for the United States. Another method to be used in this investigation is the research

The Nuremberg trials were a series of legal procedures conducted by a committee of judges known as the International Military Tribune. These trials prosecuted multiple Nazi participants, whom which of these included Hermann Goering, during World War II on account of crime. A man of significant social and political ranking, Goering was the most trusted confidant of Hitler and chosen successor. Although Goering denied the crimes accused of him, substantial evidence corroborated the charges brought against him in court. The evidence presented the abuses Hermann Goering committed while in position as minister interior of Prussia to suppress political rivals (Europe since 1914).

Between 1945 and 1949, about twenty-four major Nazi criminals were tried in Nuremberg, Germany for the four indictments, participation in a common plan for crimes against peace, waging and planning wars of aggression and other crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, though the most important trials were held between November 20th 1945 and October 1st, 1946. Those held after were so-called “lesser war crimes.” Within the trials, there were judges trials, which consisted of sixteen jurists, lawyers, nine Reich Ministry of Justice, prosecutors, judges of special courts, and the People's Court of Germany. These trials lasted from March 5th to December 4th, 1947. Throughout this time ten were found guilty, four were sentenced to life in prison, and four were acquitted of all charges. Throughout all of the judges trials, most of the prisoners were released in the early 1950s for illness, or on retirement pensions.

J.E.B. Spredemann once said, "Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or another." This is especially true for the war criminals that were involved in the Holocaust. The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials that consisted mostly of criminals that led Nazi Germany during World War II with a goal to punish them for the crimes they had committed.

On 8th August, 1945, shortly after the end of World War II 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 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 a platform in order to bring individuals who acted in extreme violence against civilian population and violated human rights through times of war. However, at the time, there existed no true definition of a war criminal and what defines