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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. Series of military trials at the end of World War II For the film, see Nuremberg Trials (film). "International Military Tribunal" redirects here. For the Tokyo Trial, see International Military Tribunal for the Far East. International Military Tribunal Judges' bench during the tribunal ...
The Nuremberg Code became a cornerstone of clinical research and bioethics." [17] In 1995, Judge Sandra Beckwith ruled in the case In Re Cincinnati Radiation Litigation (874 F. Supp 1995) that the Nuremberg Code may be applied in criminal and civil litigation in the Federal Courts of the United States. [18]
Between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946, the International Military Tribunal (IMT), better known as the Nuremberg trials, tried 24 of the most important political and military leaders of Nazi Germany. Of those convicted, 11 were sentenced to death and 10 hanged.
Nazi Concentration Camps (1945) – Film produced by U.S. armed forces and presented at the Nuremberg trials (57:53). In a draft of an internal memorandum, dated 18 September 1942, Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler wrote that "in principle the Fuehrer's time is no longer to be burdened with these matters"; the memorandum goes on to outline Himmler's vision, including "The delivery of anti ...
The Nuremberg principles are a set of guidelines for determining what constitutes a war crime. The document was created by the International Law Commission of the United Nations to codify the legal principles underlying the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi party members following World War II .
The Secret Cabinet Council was indicted as a criminal organization as part of the larger Reich government (Reichsregierung) by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. However, the Tribunal found that no declaration of criminality could be made, as the Council never actually met and never acted as a group or organization.
Superior orders, also known as just following orders or the Nuremberg defense, is a plea in a court of law that a person, whether civilian, military or police, should not be considered guilty of committing crimes ordered by a superior officer or official.
Mikhail Timofeyevich Likhachev (Russian: Михаил Тимофеевич Лихачёв; 1913 – 19 December 1954) was an officer in the Soviet Ministry of State Security (MGB) who led the team of Soviet investigators at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals, and was executed for his role in fabricating criminal cases against prominent Soviet citizens, including the wartime heads of ...