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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 February 2025. Series of military trials at the end of World War II "International Military Tribunal" redirects here. For the Tokyo Trial, see International Military Tribunal for the Far East. For the film, see Nuremberg Trials (film). International Military Tribunal Judges' bench during the tribunal ...
One noted use of this plea or defense was by the accused in the 1945–1946 Nuremberg trials. These were a series of military tribunals held by the main victorious Allies of World War II to prosecute, among others, prominent members of the political, military and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany.
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 prosecutors attempted to substitute his son in the indictment, but the judges rejected this due to proximity to trial. Alfried was tried in a separate Nuremberg trial (the Krupp Trial) for the use of slave labor, thereby escaping worse charges and possible execution; found guilty in 1948, pardoned and all property returned 1951. Robert Ley ...
Among the many war crimes they faced, the Nazi officials were accused of crimes against peace and -- for the first time in history, crimes against humanity. Today in History: Nuremberg Trials ...
A witness testifies in the Judges' Trial View of Judges' trial from visitors' gallery. The Judges' Trial (German: Juristenprozess; or, the Justice Trial, or, officially, The United States of America vs. Josef Altstötter, et al.) was the third of the 12 trials for war crimes the U.S. authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Nuremberg after the end of World War II.
The following is a list of war crimes trials and tribunals brought against the Axis powers following the conclusion of World War II. Nazi Germany. Nuremberg Trials of the 24 most important leaders of the Third Reich; 1945–1946, held by the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France. Subsequent Nuremberg Trials
Tyranny on Trial: The Trial of the Major German War Criminals at the End of World War II, at Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-46. College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 1999 ISBN 0870744364, ISBN 978-0870744365. Hockett, Jeffrey D.. New Deal Justice: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Hugo L. Black, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert H. Jackson.