NUREMBERG TRIALS Definition & Meaning

Nuremberg trials

Trials of Nazi leaders conducted after World War II . A court set up by the victorious Allies tried twenty-two former officials, including Hermann Goering , in Nuremberg, Germany , for war crimes . Goering and eleven others were sentenced to death. Many of the highest officials of Nazi Germany, including Adolf Hitler , Joseph Goebbels , and Heinrich Himmler , had committed suicide before they could be brought to trial, and Goering killed himself before he could be executed.

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Several of those accused at the Nuremberg trials offered the defense that they were merely carrying out the orders of their superiors. This defense was not accepted.

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Facilities organized for medical purposes are protected under the Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocols and other law and practice — rules developed in part as a response to the horrors of the Holocaust revealed at the Nuremberg trials — and can be either civilian or military, permanent or temporary, fixed or mobile.

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Disgraced InfoWars founder Alex Jones wants Donald Trump's Justice Department to stage a recreation of the Nuremberg trials for Democrats.

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He is also represented onscreen by an actor in scenes recreating the series’s other primary framing device, the first Nuremberg trials in 1945.

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That was the defense of the Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg trials, and it has been used again and again by defendants facing charges for their actions on Jan. 6.

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The last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, one of the first outside witnesses to document the atrocities of Nazi labor and concentration camps.

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