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The Nazi Plan at a site explaining the circumstances in which Nazi Concentration Camps, The Nazi Plan and Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today were arranged. This article about a documentary film on World War II is a stub .
The so-called "Red books" were officially published by the Nazi Party and contained the proceedings of each rally, along with the full text of speeches. [32] The "Blue books" were published initially by Julius Streicher, the Gauleiter of Nuremberg, and later by Hanns Kerrl, not by the party press. [32]
Miroslav Kárný writes it was published on the same day the last 13 prisoners, all women, were gassed or shot in crematorium II in Auschwitz-Birkenau. [3] The document combined the material from the Vrba–Wetzler report and two others, which were submitted together in evidence at the Nuremberg Trials as document no. 022-L, exhibit no. 294-USA.
Previous to the time of the Nuremberg Trials, this excuse was known in common parlance as "superior orders". [citation needed] After the prominent, high-profile event of the Nuremberg Trials, that excuse is now referred to by many as the "Nuremberg Defense". In recent times, a third term, "lawful orders" has become common parlance for some people.
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.
A diagram of the Nuremberg Laws that shows the pseudo-scientific racial division, which is the basis of racial policies of Nazi Germany. Only people with four German grandparents (four white circles - the first table on the left) were considered to be "full-blooded" Germans.
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