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What Was The Role Of Punishment In The Holocaust

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Allied forces on both the Eastern and Western fronts liberated numerous concentration camps as the Second World War wound down. As the enormity of the Holocaust became apparent, many attempts were made to punish the Nazis who implemented Hitler's policies of genocide. Punishment ranged from the famous Nuremberg Trials to the attempts of "Nazi-hunters" to track down Nazis who had fled around the world. After World War II, both international and domestic courts conducted trials of accused war criminals. At the end of 1942, the governments of the Allied powers announced their determination to punish Axis war criminals. On December 17, 1942, the Allies declared officially that the mass murderers of Jews and others will be prosecuted for crimes

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