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Nuremberg Trials Begin 11/20/45-10/01/46
November 20th, 2008 Events, Real History, Shera Crossan, War Coverage


The International Military Tribunal was opened on October 18 1945, in the Supreme Court Building in Berlin. The first session was presided over by the Soviet judge, Nikitchenko. The prosecution entered indictments against 24 major war criminals and six criminal organizations - the leadership of the Nazi party, the Schutzstaffel (SS) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the Gestapo, the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the High Command of the German armed forces (OKW).

The indictments were for:

  1. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of crime against peace
  2. Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace
  3. War crimes
  4. Crimes against humanity

The definition of what constitutes a war crime is described by the Nuremberg Principles, a document which was created as a result of the trial. The medical experiments conducted by German doctors and prosecuted in the so-called Doctors’ Trial led to the creation of the Nuremberg Code to control future trials involving human subjects. sources


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125282 Comment from Shera Crossan 11/20/2008, 2:56 am

While looking into some of these links I found in PDF for the 42 volumes from the trials, you can find them here: and I hope that you have lots of time to read all the pages, there are tons.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_major-war-criminals.html

125297 Comment from Hamm 11/20/2008, 11:58 am

Sham trials…what a sad day for “democracy.”

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