US EditionHarvard Law School Library Releases Full Digitized Collection of Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials prosecuted 24 major Nazi leaders, establishing international law principles and convicting many for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- Exactly 80 years ago the trial of the major Nazi war criminals began in Nuremberg, where an Allied-appointed panel of judges tried 24 Nazi leaders before the International Military Tribunal.
- The United States pushed for a formal trial that allowed counsel, and after August 1945 the Allied powers accepted the American plan to hold trials that would educate postwar Germany and hold governments accountable under international law.
- Prosecutors presented film footage of liberated concentration camps that shocked defendants and witnesses testified to Auschwitz extermination and starvation of more than three million Red Army soldiers.
- The panel's verdicts produced varied punishments, with Albert Speer receiving lengthy imprisonment while three defendants, including economist Hjalmar Schacht, were acquitted; follow-up trials forced German industrialists and doctors to testify.
- From 1946 Cold War pressures produced commuted sentences, early releases and the winding down of denazification, yet the International Criminal Court now has 125 countries reflecting Nuremberg's legacy.
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The 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials caused profound debates at "Markus Lanz". While the son of a Nazi criminal sentenced to death recalled the time, journalist Ronen Steinke warned with a view to the present.
Nuremberg, the 80-year-old Nazi trial that defined genocide, reshaped human rights
Eighty years after the Nuremberg Trials, the world revisits the historic moment when the Allies gathered in a ruined German city to hold the architects of the Holocaust -- the top Nazi leaders and organisations — accountable for genocide, mass murder and crimes against humanity, reshaping international law forever. The trials built the legal frameworks that still guide human rights today.
Officers, doctors, lawyers: In Nuremberg, not only the crimes of the Nazi elite were dealt with.
Eighty years ago, the Nuremberg Trials began. More than 200 National Socialists were to be held accountable for their crimes. The trials are considered the birth of international criminal law. By Frank Bräutigam.
Eighty years ago, the Nuremberg trial judged some of the highest Nazi officials, from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946. Today, mistreated, international law did not say its last word. ...
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