What they NEVER told you about the B0DIES after the EXECUTIONS in Nuremberg
The Allies held the Nuremberg trials against representatives of Nazi Germany for planning and executing invasions of other European nations as well as crimes against their civilians during World War II. Join us, as we look at what they never told you about the bodies after the executions in Nuremberg.
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Nuremberg Trials
An important triumph in the latter days of World War II was achieved when the U.S. Army captured Nuremberg, Germany, on April 20, 1945. A major emblem of the Nazi system, the fall of Nuremberg marked a dramatic shift in the war. This episode hurried the end of the war and prepared the ground for the Nuremberg Trials, which sought to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. Nuremberg enjoyed unique standing under the Nazis. Of all the German cities, Adolf Hitler thought this one was the most German. It hosted several rallies and propaganda events for Nazism. Here in 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were passed, depriving Jews of their German citizenship and laying the groundwork for the Holocaust. Taking the city, then, was strategically and symbolically very important to the Allies. A key post-war event, the Nuremberg Trials, was made feasible by the Allied occupation of Nuremberg. The purpose of these trials was to bring well-known Nazi war criminals to justice. Among other revolutionary features of the trials were the idea of individual responsibility for war crimes and a benchmark for future international criminal tribunals.
At the Nuremberg Trials, twenty-two top Nazi officials were charged with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit these crimes. Of the twenty-two defendants, twelve were executed; three were found not guilty; and the remaining seven were sentenced to different lengths of time in prison. A watershed was reached in World War II with the conquest of Nuremberg. That was the first indication that the Nazi government was going to fall. The horrors committed during the war were powerfully brought home by the Nuremberg Trials that followed. These trials also established the foundation for present international law dealing with war crimes and crimes against humanity. The capture and trials of Nuremberg still influence our perceptions of justice, accountability, and the need to be constantly vigilant against the forces of oppression and hatred.
Winston Churchill And His Secretary Anthony Eden Plan Strategy
According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in December 1942 the leaders of Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union "issued the first joint declaration officially noting the mass murder of European Jewry and resolving to prosecute those responsible for violence against civilian populations." Leading Soviet official Joseph Stalin first suggested putting between 50,000 and 100,000 German staff officers to death. Although British Prime Minister Winston Churchill considered the idea of summarily executing senior Nazis, American officials persuaded him that a criminal trial would be more successful. Criminal procedures would, among other benefits, necessitate recording of the crimes against the defendants and shield them from later charges the defendants had been sentenced without proof. Setting up the Nuremberg trials presented numerous legal and procedural challenges. First, there had never been an international war criminal prosecution.
The American Civil War saw the execution of Confederate army officer Henry Wirz for his mistreatment of Union prisoners of war; Turkey also held courts-martial in 1919–1920 to punish those responsible for the Armenian genocide of 1915–16. But these were trials carried out within the laws of a single country, not a coalition of four powers with disparate legal customs and traditions as in the Nuremberg trials. Ultimately, on August 8, 1945, the Allies released the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, which set the rules and procedures for the Nuremberg trials. The charter identified three categories of crimes, among them crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It was established that both military and civilian authorities might be charged with war crimes. The trials were held at Nuremberg, a city in the German state of Bavaria because the war had not seriously destroyed the Palace of Justice, which housed a sizable prison. Nuremberg had also hosted yearly Nazi propaganda events, hence, the postwar trials there signaled the symbolic end of Hitler's Third Reich, or administration.