The Trials Of The Nuremberg Trials

These were the Nuremberg Trials, and they were specifically set up to prosecute the top level of members of the nazi party and military commanders that were responsible for the genocide and murder of the Jewish race or crimes against humanity and peace. The “Nuremberg Trials are now regarded as a milestone toward the establishment of a permanent international court.” (History) This was the first time that the international community set up a court for a specific event only. It did not hear other cases or issues. Its sole focus was on Germany behavior during WWII. We also set up similar courts in Tokyo after WWII, as well as a court for the mass killings in Rwanda in 1994 that judged those responsible for this

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.

Post World War II, many Nazi leaders were put on trial by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. At the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials Speer was charged with, conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, crimes against peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Twelve out of twenty-one accused Nazi leaders were sentenced to death. Speer was found guilty but he was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment, thus escaping the hangman’s noose. Historian Van der Vat

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

The trial and conviction of Hermann Goering, Hitler’s chosen successor, was arguably one of the most significant cases due to the tremendous amount of influence that Goering had over the German people (Taylor, 78). Overy asserted that, the success of the entire trial depended upon Goering’s cross-examinations, as its outcome had the power to either reignite Nazi pride or put a stop to it once and for all (Walker, 68). This makes the cross-examinations some of the most decisive pieces of evidence for these trials, much more than any of the psychological factors that may have led to the outcome (Overy-Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial). The cross-examinations were led by two individuals, Justice Robert Jackson and Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe. According to

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

I believe this is true and I find it amusing how the Nazis took the law and judgement upon themselves and punished the Jews with authority they didn’t have, and then all but 3 of the 21 who pleaded “not guilty” were convicted. In my opinion, it is crazy how some of the defendants could deny their unjust and atrocious actions when put on trial. In fact, I would want to be punished. Finally, in regards to the outcome, while I wish the 3 that were not convicted were somehow punished, I feel that because of their actions, their thoughts and memories would punish them. Also, while it seems the guilty party deserves the death penalty, is it really the place of man to decide when a person’s life is over? Perhaps life in prison or life in a work camp would be suitable, but, in my opinion, it isn’t the right of man to end the life of another. All in all, I believe the Nuremberg Trials were well handled by Robert Jackson and the other

The War Crimes Trials, also known as the Nuremberg Trials, were a series of two-hundred sixteen court sessions and thirteen trials charging twenty-four main Nazi party officials, highly- ranked military leaders, doctors and lawyers against their involvement with the Holocaust. The trials began on November 20, 1945 at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, due to its significant connection to the Holocaust, and the Nazi Party. The trials were conducted by a U.S., French, British, and Soviet military tribunal, and the trials were authorized by the London Agreement. The charges against those being tried were crimes against peace including planning, starting and waging war; war crimes including violations of laws of war; crimes against humanity

The two remaining leaders of the Nazi party, tried at Nuremberg, were Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess. Since Hitler, Himmler and Gobbels were dead, these two men were considered the symbol of the evils of Nazism. Although prosecutors sought to cross-examining both men to tell all they knew about the Nazi's policies, Goering tried from the beginning, to discredit the International Military Tribunal and the trials. Hess, on the other hand, feigned amnesia and avoided being cross-examined. Other defendants tried at Nuremberg were Joachim von Ribbentrop, Field Marshall Wihelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenburg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick. These men were considered "Nazi thugs" and their trials did not last as long and were not seen as

The Nuremberg Doctor’s trial of 1946 involves human experimentation performed by the Nazi doctors. These physicians were accused of conducting torturous “experiments” with concentration camp inmates. During these studies, physicians conducted treatments that were not permitted and caused severe injuries to the participants, and in some cases, participants died as a result of this. Prisoners were left to freeze to study more on hypothermia. Later, during December 9th, 1946 to August 20th, 1947 representatives establish a Nuremberg trial to prosecuted these doctors for the atrocities that they committed and 23 out 15 were found guilty. As a result, the Nuremberg code was created to

251). Another point is that nothing like these trials had ever been conducted to prove that something like this happened. The trials were also not entirely appropriate, Robert Taft even came out and attacked the legal basis for the trials and the sentences that had been imposed (Butz, 2003, p. 27). The most significant point about these trials is that without them, there is almost no evidence of any “extermination” taking place (Butz, 2003, p. 28). But those who feel that the Holocaust did happen say that there is evidence other than these trials. According to Earl Rice Jr., nobody knows for sure whether or not Hitler ever gave the order, but he did reveal his role to only a few trusted underlings including Himmler and Goebbels (Rice, 1998, p. 49). The evidence of the piles of bodies that the allied forces encountered, the giant crematoriums, or the gas chambers that were used to asphyxiate the prisoners (Nazi, 2007, p. 1). The claim that there is no evidence other than the oral testimony is difficult to believe with many of the eye-witness accounts presented after the

The Nuremberg Doctors Trial of 1946 is the preeminent case recognizing the importance of medical ethics and human rights specifically about human research subjects. The defendants in the trials include Nazi leadership, physicians, and investigators prosecuted for conducting unethical and inhumane medical experiments on civilians and prisoners of war resulting in extreme pain, suffering, permanent injury and often death. The Nuremberg Code, borne of these trials, establishes ethical guidelines for human experimentation to ensure the rights of subjects in medical research. Herein, this writer will first identify and discuss ethical dilemmas presented in the Nuremberg case followed by three

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.

More than half a century has passed since the end of World War Two and to this day it is still difficult to fully understand the severity of what was by far the most destructive war in human history. More than sixty million people were killed during World War Two and more than half of those were innocent town’s people. Among the dead were over six million Jews, which was two thirds of the total living race in Europe at the time. Beyond these general statistics were thousands of stories of crimes committed against soldiers and civilians. These crimes against humanity included cases of prisoners of war being murdered, sent to concentration camps and abuse as well as harmless civilians being rounded up and

After the war was over there were a lot of Nazi’s that couldn’t be brought to trial because of how they had fled of after the war and their location was nowhere to be seen. There are still some former Nazi’s still in hiding but mostly all of them had died by now. If a Nazi was caught in this present day they would be charged and executed for the following, abetting, and also being contributed to the killings that had taken places, According to National Geographic, the most wanted criminal that was wanted was Laszlo Csatory who had been executed when he was 98 years old. In conclusion, Nazi’s had still been alive even after the Nuremberg Trials had taken place.