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    The document summarizes the Nuremberg Trials that occurred after World War 2 to prosecute Nazi war criminals. The four allied powers established an international military tribunal and tried Nazi leaders on charges of crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit any of those crimes. After a year-long trial, 19 defendants were found guilty and sentenced to death, life imprisonment, or prison terms.

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    Nuremberg Trials

    Ovi Acharjee,
    Department of Law, SUB,
    Member, Monitoring Panel, SUBMCS
    The story began on 8 may,1945 . It was the moment when Germany
    signed on the surrender paper and then the world war 2 was over.
    After that the Nazi leaders thought that the military leaders and
    some top Nazi leaders who were caught , should be punished.

    Britain Churchill wanted that they should be punished through


    summary trail. But American leadership wanted that firstly there
    should be filed a case then they should be tried and then they should
    be punished( not through the summary trial).

    The Nazi party mainly wanted to conduct this trial for showing to the
    German people that they were wining the world war 2 but because of
    some Nazi leaders and military generals they did not win the war. By
    conducting this trail the Nazi party wanted to bring strong evidences
    in front of the German people and wanted to achieve their trust and
    support.

    If once all the evidences are presented before the court then it will
    be recorded and it will become a documentary evidence. For
    conducting the trial , Nuremberg city was chosen.

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    On 8 August, 1945 , four countries named America, Britain, Soviet Union and
    France created International Military Tribunal under article 1 of the London
    Charter. Many confused were raised and a question was also arose that ‘how do
    you punish someone from another sovereign country for crimes that are not
    actually illegal in that country?’ The allied powers answered this question with
    the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal. This charter laid down
    a system where the 4 different legal codes of France, Soviet Union, USA and UK
    had been incorporated into a single tribunal.

    There were prosecutors and defense lawyers according to British and US laws
    but decisions and sentences were imposed by a group of judges according to
    France and Soviet legislation.
    The judges fixed some charges against the top Nazi leaders, military leaders and
    against few people. These were:
    1. Crimes against peace.
    2. Crimes against humanity
    3. War crimes
    4. A common plan or conspiracy to commit any of the three aforementioned
    crimes.

    This trial was also conducted against some organizations like: Gestapo, security
    services etc. On 20 November, 1945 , 21 defendants came before the court
    and all the allegations against them were read. In this trial the main Nazi leader
    Hitler was not tried because he committed suicide. After the day of Hitlers’
    death , Joseph Goebbels committed suicide. Heinrich Himmlar also committed
    suicide when he was caught. The main three Nazi leaders had died before the
    trial started. 3
    Conducting the trial was difficult because in past, this type of trial
    had not been conducted. Prosecution lawyers and defense lawyers
    were present during the trial time. The chief prosecutor name was
    Robert H. Jackson and he was an American.

    The most difficult part of the trial was that the prosecutors, Judges
    and the defense lawyers spoke in different languages. So, to solve the
    problem some translators worked who translated the languages
    instantly.

    The most important evidences were the photos of the Concentration


    camp. Britain and France captured those pictures and submitted them
    before the court against Germany. The prosecution lawyers also
    submitted more such pictures and documents to prove the
    defendants guiltiness. The trial was continued till one year. And the
    next year on 1 October, 1946 the tribunal passed judgement against
    19 accused persons and acquitted 3 persons .

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    Among the 19 people , 12 people were sentenced to death,
    3 people were sentenced to life imprisonment and 4 people were
    sentenced to prison terms ranging from 10 to 20 years.

    The tribunal was bound to give reasons for its judgement as to the
    guilt or the innocence of any defendant. The judgement was
    considered to be final and not subject to review as per article 26 of
    the London Charter.

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    Email : [email protected]
    Linkedin : Ovi Acharjee

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