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Nuremberg trials

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
After World War II, the trials of the 24 chief Nazi war criminals November 1945–October 1946 by an international military tribunal consisting of four judges and four prosecutors: one of each from the USA, UK, USSR, and France. An appendix accused the German cabinet, general staff, high command, Nazi leadership corps, SS , Sturmabteilung , and Gestapo of criminal behaviour. The main charges in the indictment were: (1) conspiracy to wage wars of aggression; (2) crimes against peace; (3) war crimes: for example, murder and ill-treatment of civilians and prisoners of war, deportation of civilians for slave labour, and killing of hostages; (4) crimes against humanity: for example, mass murder of the Jews and other peoples, and murder and ill-treatment of political opponents. Of the accused, Krupp was too ill to be tried; Ley committed suicide during the trial; and Bormann , who was dead but was thought to have fled, was sentenced to death in his absence. Fritsche, Schacht, and Papen were…
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From World of Criminal Justice, Gale
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The Nuremberg trials were a series of twelve trials held between 1945 and 1949 involving over 100 defendants who were important officials in Adolph Hitler’s Nazi Germany. These officials included military and political leaders but also judges, doctors and business leaders. The trials were held in…
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From The Oxford Companion to International Relations
The atrocities of World War II were without precedent in modern times. Since 1941, Allied leaders repeatedly warned the Axis powers that war criminals would be brought to trial. A United Nations War Crimes Commission was created in 1943, and the Soviets held sporadic war-crimes trials even while…
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Also known as: International Military Tribunal; Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal 1946 The Nuremberg Trials generally refers to the trials against members of the German leadership for war crimes committed in the period leading up to and during World War II. The decision to try these individuals was made…
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From The Reader's Companion to American History
In the Nuremberg trials (1945-1946), an International Military Tribunal tried high Nazi officials for actions committed during World War II that contravened the accepted laws of war. Among the practices condemned were plotting and waging aggressive war, using slave labor, looting occupied countries, …
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From Encyclopedia of Terrorism
At the end of World War II in 1945, most of the surviving German Nazi leaders were captured by the Allies who occupied Germany that spring. They were placed on trial the next year for crimes against humanity. The Nazi regime, during its 12 years in power (1933-45), authorized and encouraged a…
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From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Judaism
After the May 1945 military defeat of the Nazi government in Germany, the victorious Allied nations, France, England, the United States, and the Soviet Union, determined to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. Between November 1945 and August 1946 the allied authorities held a series of widely…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
After World War II, the trials of the 24 chief Nazi war criminals November 1945–October 1946 by an international military tribunal consisting of four judges and four prosecutors: one of each from the USA, UK, USSR, and France. An appendix accused the German cabinet, general staff, high command, Nazi…
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From The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin
Trials of Nazi leaders conducted after World War II . A court set up by the victorious Allies tried twenty-two former officials, including Hermann Goering , in Nuremberg, Germany , for war crimes . Goering and eleven others were sentenced to death. Many of the highest officials of Nazi Germany, …
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From The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
http://www.helicon.co.uk/cgi-bin/redirect.pl4?w0005247 Part of the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School, this site is a comprehensive source of official documentation regarding the Nuremberg Trials. Some of the documents include official court papers and rules for procedure, testimony of witnesses, …
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