Nuremberg Trials
After World War II, the victorious Allies launched an indictment against 24 individuals with a variety of crimes, including the deliberate instigation of aggressive wars, extermination of racial and religious groups, murder and mistreatment of prisoners of war, and the deportation to slave labor of hundreds of thousands of people living in countries occupied by Germany during the war. Among the accused were Nationalists Socialists leaders Rudolf Hess, and Hermann Goring. These trials lasted from November 20, 1945 until October 1, 1946. Most of the evidence was gained by the prosecution from the Allied forces after the collapse of the German government. The trials lasted over 3 years and the effects they had on the world were astounding. Although the Allies claimed they would give the accused a fair and just trial, but the trials were biased and unjust. The Nuremberg Trials were biased acts of vengeance, were the rules and laws were not followed, and only the Nazi's were accused. After the war, each one of the countries on the Allied side had their own idea of how to deal with the Nazi's. Stalin suggested that they should have trials, but thought everyone was guilty and should be shot. Then there would be no point in a trial be
Nuremberg showed that the Allies were not seeking justice but actually seeking vengeance. Several of the Allies were guilty of the same exact crimes themselves, but that was ignored. The Russians committed the Katyln Forest massacre where thousand of people were murdered, but they put the blame for this crime on the Germans. The Americans dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese, which killed thousands of innocent people. A lot of different countries committed horrible crimes during the war, but wartime is drastic, and calls for drastic measures. To accuse some countries for acts of violence during the war and not others does not make sense. cause it would just be the slaughtering of whom ever was convicted. He also wanted to do this because he could say it was fair, because he gave them a trial. Churchill even said that they should just be lined up and shot. Since the leaders of the Allies were saying such things as this, it is obvious that the trials were bias. Especially since the Allies ran the trials and each allied country had its own persecutors. All the judges at the trials came from the victorious countries as well. Most of the judges were American or Russian. So there wasn't even a difference of opinion when deciding the fate of these people's lives. It was a very one-sided trial. The Russians also accused the Germans of committing crimes such as the burning of churches, but actually the Russian were using setting up the Germans for something that they did. The Russians claimed the Germans destroyed St. Peter's Church and the famous Schwarzhaupter House in Riga, but these destructions were caused a fire made by the Russians. During the trials, the Americans put American justice over International Justice. This didn't make sense because these trials consisted of many countries but the US was using
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