The Nuremberg Trials Involvement With The Holocaust

One event that encouraged Anti-Semitism and increased tensions leading up to Kristallnacht and beyond was the announcement of the Nuremberg Laws in September of 1935. This set of laws created by the Nazi party made sharp distinctions between the rights and privileges of Germans and Jews (Sigward 291). This redefined citizenship in the Third Reich and laid the groundwork for a racial state. For example, the Reich of Citizenship Law stripped Jews of their citizenship, claiming they didn’t have “German blood” (Sigward 291). Those of Jewish descent were denied the right to vote and the ability to obtain a valid passport or visa to leave the country. This law completely dehumanized Jews living in Germany and made them stateless, which caused those of the Aryan race or pure German descent to feel superior. In the Nuremburg Laws, Article 5 of the First Regulation to the Reich Citizenship Law defined a Jew as a descendant of three or more Jewish grandparents or two Jewish parents (Sigward 293). These laws lead to the Jews being persecuted for who they were, rather than the faith they believed during previous years. As a result of these laws being carried out, German nationalism and Anti-Semitism across the Reich increased drastically .

The Nuremberg Trials is the best-known trail regarding World War II and the Holocaust. This trial took place from November 20th, 1945- October 1st, 1946, and was not the only trial for prosecuting those involved with the horrific acts of the Holocaust. This trial tried major war criminals of being responsible for what happened during the Holocaust. The prosecution and defense attorneys followed the American and British law. The legal proceedings followed the 4 Allied countries that made up the judge tribunal: The British Empire, France, America, and the Soviet Union. Each Allied power had 2 judges, 1 main judge, and an alternate. The Defendants were also allowed to choose their own lawyers. 24 individuals and 6 Nazi’s organizations

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.

From 1941 to 1945, Jews were systematically murdered in one of the deadliest genocides in history, which was part of a broader aggregate of acts of oppression and killings of various ethnic and political groups in Europe by the Nazi regime. Every arm of Germany 's bureaucracy was involved in the logistics and the carrying out of the genocide. Other victims of Nazi crimes included Romanians, Ethnic Poles and other Slavs, Soviet POWs, communists, homosexuals, Jehovah 's Witnesses and the mentally and physically disabled. A network of about 42,500 facilities in Germany and German-occupied territories were used to concentrate victims for slave labor, mass murder, and other human rights abuses. Over 200,000 people are estimated to have been Holocaust perpetrators. Beginning in 1941, Jews from all over the continent, as well as hundreds of thousands of European Gypsies, were transported to the Polish ghettoes. Every person designated as a Jew in German territory was marked with a yellow star making them open targets. Thousands were soon being deported to the Polish ghettoes and German-occupied cities in the USSR. Since June 1941, experiments with mass killing methods had been ongoing at the concentration camp of Auschwitz and many more. That August, 500 officials gassed 500 Soviet POWs to death with the pesticide Zyklon-B. The SS soon placed a huge order for the gas with a German pest-control firm, an ominous indicator of the coming Holocaust. Beginning in late 1941, the Germans

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

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

Millions of people witnessed the crimes of the Holocaust all over Europe in there every day lives. There were numerous people across Europe who willingly collaborated or were complicit in the Nazi crimes during Holocaust. What could motivate so many people to turn against other human beings and treat them as lesser? Why did others not help? There were a lot of people who did help the Jews. Everyone believes in something and has ideas of what they believe to be right or wrong. Most people will stand up for what they believe in. People tend to waver in their support of their beliefs when they come up against scrutiny by a perceived group of power or influence. There are some people who will stand up for what they believe or oppose something

During World War II, many Nazis committed crimes against peace and humanity. The Allies put the criminals of the war on trial for their crimes. The Nuremberg Trials were a series of 13 trials that were held to punish criminals without wrongfully accusing someone. The trials were, “Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice,”(Nuremberg Trials 1). The trials

The trial attracted a lot of public recognition in Germany, but considered Fritz Bauer; who played a significant role as a Judge and prosecutor on the trails, was quoted to say that the trials in a macro-scale was a failure. Only 22 SS members were charged, with an estimate of 6,000 to 8,000 who were thought to have been involved in the administration and operation of the camp. Six officials received life sentences, and many others were given long sentences. However, several were given on average 3-7 years and it is documented that four were acquitted and released. It was the first time individuals responsible for the Nazi's methods of exterminating Jews and people of other minorities were brought before national courts in Germany. In my focus, I would also like to show emphasis on the 360 witnesses who were called to testify, of which 210 were survivors of the Holocaust and the Hitler

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).

During your lifetime, have you ever wanted to bring someone to justice for something bad that they had done? The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials held between 1945 and 1949 in which the Allies prosecuted German military leaders, political officials, industrialists, and financiers for the crimes they had committed during World War II. The Nazis who participated in doing those terrible things to the Jews were brought to justice. Most of them were executed for the sickening crimes they commited. The Nuremberg Trials were a significant aspect of the Holocaust because this event was held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice.

Schirach’s role in Germany during World War II was very important to the acceptance of the Final Solution by the German citizens. The purpose of the organizations that he lead throughout the years of the war were to integrate anti-semitic ideology into the minds of the new generations of German people. His goal was to train all of the German youth to be blindly loyal to Hitler and everything he believed in, as well as encourage them to always act on that loyalty thoughtlessly. They also trained children as young as ten years old for military service once they reached eighteen, putting them into training units and conditioning them to a life of violence. Despite the psychological warfare used by Schirach, he was sentenced to only twenty years in prison (Nuremberg Trial Defendants: Baldur von Schirach). This is as surprising as it is disappointing, that the Allies would allow a criminal who manipulated and brainwashed so many people, children included, to escape with such a light sentence in relativity to his crimes. He served his time in Spandau prison an eventually died in 1974 (Nuremberg Trial Defendants: Baldur von

There were 3 categories of crimes in the Nuremberg Trials. The first category of crimes were war crimes, crimes that violated the laws of warfare. The second category were crimes against humanity, inhuman actions against any people. The third category was crimes against the peace, the planning or participation of any overly aggressive war.

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.

In the tumultuous period leading up to World War II, a series of laws were devised in Nazi Germany that subjected the Jewish people to prohibitory and discriminatory forms of treatment. Although the Jewish people only accounted for 503,000 of the 55 million occupants of the country, Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship preached the incorporation of anti-Semitism into law and practice in order to quell the people he considered to be the enemy of the country.