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Medical Experiments And The Nuremberg Trials During The Holocaust

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Medical Experiments and the Nuremberg Trials Imagine a normal day in a concentration camp, being starved and worked to death and being tortured on a daily basis. This was only a small portion of the torture the Jews went through during their life in the Holocaust. A major part of it was the medical experiments and the Euthanasia murders. Sadly, the Nazis would kill German Jews and many other races to please Hitler. All of the plans carried through, with the help of Josef Mengele, caused a lot of damage during the war. Eventually, when the war died down, Hitler and his men were finally put on trial for their wrongdoings, these trials were called the Nuremberg Trials.
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Winston Churchill started the road to the Nuremberg Trials, he wanted a summary execution for the Nazis, in which the Americans had agreed on. After the Allied Powers found out about Hitler’s actions, they agreed to punish Germany for their murders in 1942. To complete this task, the Soviet Union leader, Stalin, executed 50,000-100,000 German staff officers. A total of twenty-four German leaders were accused along with six Nazi organizations. During the trials, each defendant was allowed to choose their own lawyer depending on if they were going to have harsh punishment (German Leaders) or gentle treatment (soldiers) (“Nuremberg Trials”).
One of the many issues with the trials were the international criminals spoke four different languages. To help make the trials run smoothly, they recruited men and women to translate the words over the phone. Also, in order to set up the Nuremberg Trials, they had to bypass the legal and procedural difficulties. There were no earlier laws in the Judicial Branch for International Trial of war criminals. Earlier trials were passed because the laws were passed by a single nation, while the Nuremberg trials consisted of four countries (France, Britain, United States, and Soviet Union) (“Nuremberg …show more content…

On August 8th, 1945, the London charter of the International Military Tribunal (IMT) passed the laws/procedures for the Nuremberg Trials. The charter also recognized three categories of crimes; crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Later on, in 1945-1946, the Major War Criminals’ Trial began with defense attorneys, prosecutors, and U.S. and UK laws. The only difference was, instead of a single jury, a tribunal (a panel of judges) came up with the verdict. Each country of the Allied powers had a main judge and an alternate judge (“Nuremberg Trials”). Also, there was new technology (monographs) that helped with the medical criminality and finding the twenty-three defendants put on trial during the “Doctor Trials” (“Bryant”).
The Nuremberg Trials were a milestone for courts and many Nazis were found throughout the process of thirteen years. The purpose of these trials was mainly for bringing the Jews to Justice and punishing the German Leader (1945-1958). Also, these trials were looked at as a milestone for permanent international court and also helped with further problems

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