The first international war-crimes trials began in November 1945 in Nuremberg, Germany. The International Military Tribunal (IMT) was set up by the victorious Allies (the U.S., France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union) at the end of World War II. Prosecutors from those four countries indicted a total of 22 Nazi German officials on three basic charges - conspiring and ultimately launching an "aggressive war," committing war crimes and committing "crimes against humanity." Also indicted were various German organizations and businesses that the Allies charged with aiding the Nazi war effort. Among the atrocities that the Nazis were responsible for over the previous 10 years were the murder of six million Jews, a vast amount of homosexuals and allies of Jewish people throughout Europe and t
With that said, we can begin to determine whether or not the Nuremberg Trials were legal. I would agree with many legal scholars that analyzed this care in that the Nuremberg war-crimes trials were based upon a complete disregard of sound legal precedents, principles and procedures. And, that the court had no real jurisdiction over the accused or their offenses; it fabricated ex post facto crimes; it allowed the accusers to act as prosecutors, judges, jury and executioners; and it admitted to the group of prosecutors those who had been guilty of crimes as numerous and atrocious as those with which the accused were charged. Contrary to the fundamental laws under which this society has lived for many hundreds of years, the law officers in this trial did not attempt to justify their action o
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