The Influence of the Nuremberg Trials on International Law

The Holocaust was a major event that had happened in the World War II but more specifically between years 1933 to 1945. The Nuremberg trials were mainly created for the reason of the Holocaust, in this tragic event over 11 million men and women had died! 6 million of them were Jewish people, and about 1.5 million of those people were. Nazi Germany had made approximately 20,000 concentration camps, most Sonderkommandos were regularly gassed, and fewer than 20 of the several thousand survived(Sonderkommandos) were the commonly referred names to Jewish people. In Auschwitz there were about 2,000,000 casualties, Belzec had about 600,000 deaths, Bergen-Belsen had about 70,000 deaths, Buchenwald had about 56000 deaths, Chelmno had about 340,000

The Nuremberg Trials, were set up by the Allies to hold the Nazis accountable for what they had done during World War II. The Nuremberg Trials contained 13 trials, thus many were executed, put to death sentence, received life in prison and, received prison time with varying lengths.

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.

Twenty-four major political and military leaders of Nazi Germany, indicted for aggressive war, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Of the twenty-four twenty-one were taken into custody and put on trial; these were known as the Nuremberg Trials. These trials started on November 20th 1945 and were the first ever war crime tribunal. The Trials were held by the Allied forces of World War II and were held in the city of Nuremberg in Bavaria Germany out of the Palace of Justice. Accusations placed against them were for their involvement in the Nazi Party during World War II. Nazi officials were judged unfairly during the Nuremburg Trails for a

The Nuremberg Trials was a series of 13 trials that lasted from 1945-1946. Twenty-four individuals were held responsible for the holocaust. Three committed suicide before they could be put on trial. These three individuals were named, Adolf hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels. Also, Hitler’s wife committed suicide with him. This all took place in the year of 1945.

The idea behind the establishment of the Nuremberg trials is to bring justice to the war crimes that took place during World War II in Nazi Germany. After Adolf Hitler committed suicide, many of Germany’s top officers, party officials, etc.; were brought to court by the Allied forces. Many of the actions taken by the Nazis broke peace within humanity and treaties with other countries. They showed many videos of how the Jews were mistreated in the concentration camps. But they had to have a fair trial for all of the people detained. However most of the prisoner’s used the fact that they were just following orders and not directing them. Within the Palace of Justice, they showed a lot of evidence against the detained people; however, in some

2: Most people have heard of the Nuremberg trials, but they know what it was—not what it did. Because I, too, am not familiar with the entire story, I hope this research project will shed some light on the Nuremberg trials, so I can learn more about it. My project will have raise some important questions: What were the charges associated with the Nuremberg trials, Who were the defendants, What was the purpose/procedures, and Did the verdict assert justice over the perpetrators.

The International Criminal Court also known as the (ICC) are a group of judges who investigates and prosecutes individuals that are guilty of crimes such as genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity and only intervenes when a state cannot intervene or is unwilling to intervene or is an international concern (Understanding the International Criminal Court). Many inhumane corruptions were committed in the past such as the Holocaust and many individual have gone unpunished for it. Due to this the United Nation General Assembly was determined to have a court were individuals who commit such cruel crimes will be held accountable and will be punished for it. An

This paper seeks to canvass the legacy of the Nuremberg Trial; the legal justifications and procedural innovations that were once controversial and which through the turn of the century have now come to be regarded as a milestone towards the application of principles of international law, establishment of a permanent international criminal court enshrined under the Rome Statute and setting new precedents for the international community. Furthermore, the author seeks to juxtapose the legal and political justifications given for the

One of the darkest times in world history is World War 2. Where the Nazi German Party and Adolf Hitler planned and executed the extermination of the Jewish, Gypsy and Homosexual race. With the help of the Allied powers, the United States, Great Britain, France and the USSR, we were able to put a stop to Hitler’s regime and put an end to the mass genocide created by him. Now this deed did not go unpunished. After the war ended with the suicide of Adolf Hitler, the 24 high ranking officers of the Nazi Party that were still alive and some 200 other members were to stand trial for their actions. These trials that they were put under are known today as the Nuremberg Trials.

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

The main idea behind the creation of the Nuremberg trials is an unbiased international authority that would defend against any similar action. Justice Jackson and the other Prosecutors of the court sought to create precedent to try international criminals and set boundaries for future wars. Without these fundamental ideals, the Nuremberg Trials would not have been carried out in the manner that they were. The Nuremberg Trials were seen as a major opportunity to set forth the desired precedent for the creation of international criminal law in the years to come.

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and their collaborators as a central act of state during the second World War. Truth Commissions were developed primarily after the end of WW2 (Dean Peachy, class lecture). It stretched between the years of, 1933 until 1945; and in November of 1945, the Nuremberg Trials took place. The Nuremberg Trials is marked in history as one of the most revolutionary trials to convict perpetrators of larger scale war crimes, and an international precedent for prosecuting crimes against humanity. The Nuremberg trial, influenced others in similar trials-the Auschwitz trials, as one of them.

Impunity is defined as an exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action. More specific, it refers to the failure to bring perpetrators of human rights violations to justice, thus denying victims the right to justice and restoration. These violators may be government officials or private individuals and they are often protected by special jurisdictions, sanctions, immunities, or amnesties. In 1945, at the Nuremberg Trials, which judged the accused war criminals of Nazi Germany, the international community pledged that "never again" would it allow monstrous crimes against humanity or genocide to take place. The United Nations recognized the need for an international criminal court to prosecute and punish persons responsible and to help end impunity for these perpetrators of the most serious crimes against humanity. In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. By 1951, international treaties against genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity had entered into force, establishing a body of law known as International Humanitarian Law. On July 17, 1998, the international community reached a historic milestone through the adoption of the Rome Statute, the legal basis for establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC is the first permanent, treaty based, international criminal court established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of crimes

After World War 2, instead of executing the war criminals who were responsible for the Holocaust, they were tried in a court with genuine trials. This idea of the international justice shaped the new world order. International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the main judicial organization of the UN with a broad range of responsibilities. It was established to