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The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries across Europe and atrocities against their citizens in World War II.
The Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949 to try those accused of Nazi war crimes.
The Nürnberg trials were a series of trials held in Nürnberg, Germany, in 1945 and 1946 following the end of World War II. Former Nazi leaders were indicted and tried as war criminals for their conduct by the International Military Tribunal.
Trials of top surviving German leaders for Nazi Germany’s crimes began in Nuremberg after World War II. Read about the Nuremberg trials.
The Nuremberg Trials. Overview. The indictment against 24 major war criminals and seven organizations was filed on October 18, 1945 by the four chief prosecutors of the International Military Tribunal. On November 20, the trial began with 21 defendants appearing before the court.
Search thousands of historical documents from the Nuremberg trials. Examine trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers from the trials of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany.
The first Nuremberg Trial began in November 1945 with 24 of the most important German political and military leaders on trial. For much of the world, it was the first time they were learning of the Nazi Party’s beginnings, its planning and initiation of the war, and perhaps most chilling, the concentration camps and extent of Nazi Germany’s ...
Justice Robert H. Jackson’s opening statement at the Nuremberg Trials remains one of the most famous and influential oratories in the canon of international law and criminal jurisprudence.
The Nuremberg Trials were an unprecedented attempt to hold state leaders accountable for the most horrific crimes in history. By bringing the surviving architects of the Nazi regime to justice, the trials sent a powerful message that such inhumanity and aggression would not go unpunished.
The trial of leading German officials before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) is the best known war crimes trial held after World War II. It formally opened in Nuremberg, Germany, on November 20, 1945, just six and a half months after Germany surrendered.