The aim for this paper is to elaborate on what characterizes the Nuremberg Trials and the importance of the trial to international criminal justice. To understand what the Nuremberg Trial entails‚ I will construe and provide a brief on the crimes prosecuted within the trial. Some of the worst crimes occurred in the early years of the 30’s to innocent children‚ mothers‚ and families‚ specifically to Jewish‚ allied prisoners of war‚ and Russians during the Holocaust of World War II. During this time
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favor of executing these officers without granting them a full or fair trial‚ which was also called summary justice. On the contrary‚ the United States proposed military tribunal. In the end‚ military commission won. A series of trials‚ called the Nuremberg Trials‚ were then held where various Nazi officials were tried for their war crimes. These trials were treated carefully and diplomatically as they
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Medical Experiments of the Holocaust As a society we place those in the medical profession on a pedestal. They are people to be looked up to and admired. In many ways they are Gods‚ right here with us on earth. People put the hope and faith in doctors hoping they can perform miracles. Throughout history‚ doctors have indeed preformed many wonders. There were‚ however‚ some doctors that betrayed this belief and peoples trust. These doctors could be found in concentration camps such as Auschwitz
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party‚ specifically in architecture‚ Hitler was especially impressed by Speer’s early work and later made him Armaments Minister. At the end of World War II‚ Speer along with other leading Nazi’s were put on trial by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg‚ known as The Nuremberg Trials‚ where many Nazi leaders were sentenced to death or imprisoned as Speer was in Spandau for extended periods of time. Each of these were significant events in the life of Albert Speer who died in 1981. In 1934
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They were no longer Nazi criminals but new citizens with a hidden past. Lists of suspected criminals were compiled and alleged perpetrators systematically captured and put to trial. In 1943‚ under Soviet leadership the first war crime trials were conducted‚ however the first trial to involve the Allied powers was the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal in 1945
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Another reason that the court itself was not fair was that the four Allied Powers and their judge representatives came into the trials with strong anti-German approaches and they did not judge the Germans objectively and Fairley. Both the Soviet Union‚ France‚ The United States and Britain blamed Germany for its horrible acts during World War II and they put that blame on the individual defendants instead of Germany as a whole. The Soviet Union blamed the defendants for murdering many people and
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of law‚ (Hauss‚ 2003). After World War II‚ when the atrocities of the Holocaust became well known‚ the victorious Allied powers decided to hold war crimes tribunals to punish the political and military leaders of Germany and Japan. The Nuremberg and Tokyo trials were the first of their kind in establishing international precedent for the prosecution of war crimes. Later war crimes that were committed in Yugoslavia and Rwanda resulted in the creation of separate tribunals by the United Nations to
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In 1945‚ in order to achieve their aim to maintain international peace and security... and for the suppression of acts of aggression‚ the United Nations created the UN Charter that all UN members agreed to follow. As stated by the Charter and Article 6 of the US Constitution‚ a nation is legally bound under International and Domestic Law to obey all articles of the UN Charter. Through the US invasion of Iraq (2003)‚ US have violated multiple rules of the UN Charter‚ making the invasion of Iraq illegal
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Arrogance The Trial by Franz Kafka chronicles the arrest of a worldly‚ young bank official‚ Joseph K. for an unknown crime and traces his struggles and encounters with the invisible Law and untouchable Court. Although the novel is critically acclaimed for satirizing the Austro-Hungarian bureaucracy of Kafka’s time it also seems to be criticizing the arrogance of the common people. Joseph K.’s eventual downfall is not just due to the in comprehensible judicial system but can be attributed to his
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The Nuremberg trials were trials that were supposed to bring Nazi’s to justice. The Nuremberg trials occurred during the years of 1945 and 1946. During this time World War II had just ended with the Allies’ victory and many cities in Europe were rebuilding themselves thanks to the war. The Nazi war criminals were under the jurisdiction of the Allied Powers (England‚ United States‚ Soviet Union‚ and France). The trial was consisted of “twenty-two major Nazi criminals”‚ however only twelve were sentenced
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