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History: The Nuremberg Trials

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The Nuremberg Trials In the years 1945 and 1949 justice would ring for those who had suffered, was tortured, and those who did not survive in the Holocaust. Nazi generals and many higher ranking leaders were tried for the injustice done to millions of people. These justice trials were best known as the Nuremberg trials. Held in Nuremberg, Germany judges from the Allied Powers (Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States) would find out twenty-two men’s fate. On August 8, 1945 the leading Nazi officials were placed on trial for Article 6 of the The International Military Tribunal (IMT) Character for committing the following crimes: (1) Conspiracy, (2) crimes against peace, (3) war crimes, and (4) crimes against humanity.

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