Nuremberg Trials by https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5 Made with the strength to succeed en-us 2018-01-26 16:03:05 UTC 2018-02-01 16:20:06 UTC hello@padlet.com Did the unification of the Allied Powers to try war criminals after the war ultimately resolve international tension? 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225113211 2018-01-26 16:04:14 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225113211 “The fact that the Nazi leaders are criminals has already been established. The task of the Tribunal is only to determine the measure of guilt. 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225115583 2018-01-26 16:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225115583 “And it is well to remember that the plaintiffs are not, as the indictment states, the four great powers whose military victors made the trial possible, but the millions of dead soldiers of all nations, the millions of innocent victims exterminated by Nazi brutality, the millions of men, women and children who survived deportation and enslavement. Their martyrdom must not have been in vain.” 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225116096 2018-01-26 16:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225116096 "the post-World War II period has fostered an international community that is rooted in the perception that no person, no group, no government can make a decision that would adversely impact other nations without penalty." 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225117170 2018-01-26 16:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225117170 “They [the Nuremberg judges] hoped to set forward the standards of civilization, so that any nation contemplating war in the future would be deterred by the prospect that the statesmen who plot such a war are liable to be taken out and hanged.” 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225117483 2018-01-26 16:11:47 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225117483 "The trials at Nuremberg and the unprecedented international cooperation despite ideological and procedural issues can offer some hope for future areas of cooperation between nations that are so different, as the United States and the Soviet Union were in the 1940s." 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225118211 2018-01-26 16:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225118211 The jurisdiction against World War II war crimes consisted of nations which fought against each other in the war, meaning collaborating enemies worked together to punish those who broke the law. 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225118767 2018-01-26 16:14:12 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225118767 Twenty two prominent Nazi figures who held a roll within the Third Reich's war crimes were tried. 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225141272 2018-01-26 17:00:51 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225141272 “The Nuremberg Trials and the judgement it passed became a major landmark in the history of international relations and played an important historical role. Today when weapons of mass destruction pose a threat to the very survival of mankind, it is of particular significance that Nuremberg marked the end of the impunity of an aggression and showed that the rules of international criminal law are called upon to defend peace.” 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225613289 2018-01-29 13:53:10 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225613289 The Nuremberg Trials led to the international cooperation of the Genocide Convention of 1948, the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the Geneva Protocols of 1977, the Statutes of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, and the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225625879 2018-01-29 14:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/225625879 Working towards the cooperation towards the Nuremberg Trials, crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, can be tried under International Law. 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226698189 2018-01-31 17:40:01 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226698189 The Allied Powers conjoined together to create a list of crimes in which can be punished by International Law, known as the Charter of Nuremberg Tribunal. 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226698786 2018-01-31 17:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226698786 The Charter of Nuremberg Tribunals clearly states that those acting under orders of the government, can still be punished for breaking international law. 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226698965 2018-01-31 17:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226698965 The Allied Powers sought to hold a fair trial for all war criminals, which is demonstrated in the Charter of Nuremberg Tribunals. 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226699197 2018-01-31 17:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226699197 The Nuremberg Trials is practically the seed which lead to rapid international cooperation. 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226703086 2018-01-31 17:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226703086 "Statesmen and jurists realized that another failure to vindicate thelaw such as followed World War I would prove their incapacity to make progress in strengthening the inter national law of the future." 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226710224 2018-01-31 17:59:35 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226710224 “Count 4 of the indictment charges crimes against humanity. These are defined as "murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts...whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated." 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226714134 2018-01-31 18:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226714134 “There could be no more sacred trust than that of upholding the law against primitive and barbarous acts of inhumanity which shock the conscience of all civilized peoples and are forbidden by divine as well as human command." 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226717620 2018-01-31 18:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226717620 If the Charter of Nuremberg Tribunals had not been erected, justice would not have been served. Defendants would be able to blame their actions on Hitler, leaving them innocent, but making Hitler guilty. However, since he committed suicide, justice would never have been served. 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226719843 2018-01-31 18:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226719843 "... it is obvious that the prevention of aggression as a breach of the international peace must be the foundation stone upon which the whole structure of international order will have to stand or it will be built upon sand, as in the past." 20allenk2 https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226725425 2018-01-31 18:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/20allenk2/ldfpkfj75ia5/wish/226725425