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The Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
Title: The Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2574 | Pages: 11.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
In early October 1945, the four powers victorious after the Second World War issued an indictment against 24 men and six organizations. Fifty years ago the Prosecution’s opening statement was read by Associate United States Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson. Just eight months prior to that reading, the very building in which the historical trial took place was "an enemy fortress in the hands of German troops"
The Nuremberg Trials are historically significant because they represent …showed first 75 words of 2574 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2574 total…the rest were sentenced to death. On October 15, 1946, Hermann Goering cheated the executioner with a cyanide capsule. Two hours later the executions began.
Bibliography
Conot, Robert E., Justice at Nuremberg. Harper & Row Publishers, New York, 1983. PP. 99-120, 389-400.
Taylor, Telford, The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, 1992. PP 3, 23, 165-180, 262-273.
Bassiouni, M. Cherif and Ved P. Nanda. A Treatise on International Law, Volume I, Crimes and Punishment. Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Springfield, Illinois, 1973. PP 231-232, 575,
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