The Nuremberg trials
During World War II the Allies were determined that both Hitler and the men around himshould be punished for starting World War II and the crimes they had committed while they were waging it. These crimes included the extermination of the Jewish people of Europe known as the Holocaust or the Shoah. After some debate it was decided that the fairest way to proceed was the public trial of the men and organizations who committed At the most famous of these, the Nuremberg Trial, , and that had been organized to carry out the Nazi programs, were placed on trial for their crimes. Martin Bormann was tried in absentia. Additionally Robert Ley was charged as a defendant but committed suicide before the trial, and Gustav Krupp, who was named in the indictments, was found to be medically unfit to stand trial. Many of the leading Nazis, such as Hitler, Himmler, and Goebbels, were not present at the Nuremberg Trial because they has committed suicide at The first step was to agree upon the rules for the trial. They adopted a of the four Allies (the United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union). The defendants were given the right to be represented by couns
what punishments should be meted out to those who were guilty. The French judge, peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The Allies stated that the Nazis, when was conducted by a single country. The Americans, for example, tried the defendants who before. Others have been bothered by the death sentence given to Julius Streicher and the was actually called as a witness for the defense. the idea of trying men for starting the war when there had never been a trial like this
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