We must never forget
that the record on which we judge these defendants today
is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.
To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our lips as well."
-Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
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that the record on which we judge these defendants today
is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.
To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our lips as well."
-Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
CHECK YOUR WORD COUNT
Skin Lamps and the shrunken heads
The Nuremberg Trials was an important turning point in international criminal law. Before World War II, government officials slipped past punishment for their crimes. During the Holocaust, the Germans terrorized and tortured the Jews using their military forces. But because they were of the military, they were not be punished for the mass murder of the Jews and other persecuted groups. At the end of the Holocaust, world civilization was shocked by the gruesome details of the tortured Jews in the concentration camps. The Nuremberg Trials took place in the hopes of putting a stop to cruel acts similar to the Holocaust from ever occurring again. Unfortunately, history repeated itself, but the principles established by the Nuremberg Trials influenced the laws that were established on modern international law.
The International Tribunal Nuremberg
In the Nuremberg Trials, the government officials who participated in the events of the Holocaust were tried and punished for their crimes. 24 Nazis of the highest echelons were tried at the Nuremberg Tribunal. They were charged with the following counts: conspiring to engage in the other three counts; crimes against peace, as in the actual planning, preparing, and wag of aggressive war; war crimes, as in violations of the law customs of war; and crimes against humanity, as in inhumane acts committed against civilian population. After the trials, 22 judgments were handed down: 12 death sentences, 7 prison sentences, and 3 acquittals.
Evidence and Crimes Committed
"The criminals, had made many crimes, described are only few. "(A) human head with the skull bone removed, shrunken, stuffed, and preserved. The Nazis had one of their victims decapitated, after having had him hanged, apparently for fraternizing with a German woman, and fashioned this terrible ornament from his head." -Thomas Dodd explaining exhibit number USA-254 "The corpses were then turned over to the pathological department where the desired pieces of tattooed skin were detached from the bodies and treated. The finished products were turned over to SS Standartenfuehrer Koch's wife, who had them fashioned into lamp shades and other ornamental household articles, I myself saw such tattooed skins with various designs and legends on them, such as "Hansel and Gretel," which one prisoner had on his knee, and designs of ships from prisoners' chests. This work was done by a prisoner named Wernerbach."
-Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 3
-Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 3
Gold teeth
The Power of the Nuremberg Trials on Criminal Law.
"The Nuremberg trials established that all of humanity would be guarded by an international legal shield and that even a Head of State would be held criminally responsible and punished for aggression and Crimes Against Humanity. The right of humanitarian intervention to put a stop to Crimes Against Humanity – even by a sovereign against his own citizens – gradually emerged from the Nuremberg principles affirmed by the United Nations."
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The legacy of the nuremberg trials
"The Legacy of the Nuremberg Trials, were that they were created to protect civilians, medics, the wounded or prisoners of war, and ban weapons or methods of warfare likely to cause unnecessary losses or excessive suffering,
such as hollow bullets or poison gas. Today more than 190 nation states adhere
to the conventions -- almost all the countries in the world. The international
gathering at Nuremberg was the world's first tribunal to hold
a country and its leaders responsible for violating these conventions."
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such as hollow bullets or poison gas. Today more than 190 nation states adhere
to the conventions -- almost all the countries in the world. The international
gathering at Nuremberg was the world's first tribunal to hold
a country and its leaders responsible for violating these conventions."
-pbs.org/nuremberg