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Weddings rings taken to salvage the gold.

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After the war, some of those responsible for crimes committed during the Holocaust were brought to trial. The site chosen for the trials was Nuremberg, Germany between 1945 and 1946. Judges from the allied powers-Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States-presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve Nazis were sentenced to death. Most of the defendants admitted to the crimes they committed while others said they were simply following the order of higher authority. The people directed involved in the murders received more severe sentences.

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When the state department received news of the Germany’s ‘Final Solution’ they assumed that it was merely a rumor and not true so they did not forward the information to the President of the World Jewish Congress. The Rabbi eventually received news of the report via British channels and asked the state department to investigate the information. A few weeks later, the United States, Britain, and ten other allied governments issued a declaration stating that Nazi Germany’s atrocities and crimes would be held responsible for their actions.

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The Nazis used the term ‘final solution’ to refer to their plan to annihilate the Jewish people. The genocide of the Jews was the culmination of a decade of increasingly severe discriminatory measures. In its entirety, the Nazis killed the Jews by gassing, shooting, and other means. Six million Jewish men and women were killed during the Holocaust.

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Nazi race theory saw many groups as ‘undesirables’ such as Jews, Roma, black Germans, homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses, and the mentally and physically disabled. These groups of people were not allowed to be a part of the “racially pure” Germany. Death camps were set up designed solely to kill people deemed ‘undesirable’.

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The Nuremberg laws were two laws which excluded the Jews from German life, as well as took away some of their natural rights. They were first announced at the annual party rally held in Nuremberg in 1935. The laws institutionalized many of the racial theories prevalent in Nazi ideology. The laws also prevented Jews from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of “German or related blood”.