The Nuremberg Trials began three years later after the most relevant Nazi authorities were convicted of war crimes for four judges, who took legal decisions that previewed sterilization policies and ethnic cleansing in Hitler 's Germany. Judgement at Nuremberg, based on the real Case Katzenberger, is a demonstration of the efforts of a judge at the tribunal to determine how the defendants, and even also the German themselves, could have been involved in the Holocaust’s atrocities. Judgment at Nuremberg is a representation of the first trial, that is mainly based on justice principles and international law, of the country leaders that pursued threatening battles and were involved in crimes against humanity. This film is an overview of real events that highlights the conflict between morality enclosing both the behaviour of the defendants and the process of providing them with justice (Teach With Movies, 2015). These processes offered the opportunity of enhancing the debate between positivism and natural law, highlighting that the position taken would have significant consequences …show more content…
However, formalists support the idea that, instead, judge’s role is to apply laws without having their moral values behind them. This idea is found in the film where the issue of laws and morals is covered.
Judgement at Nuremberg aims to question the moral principles he moral principles and values in which those under the III Reich sustained. A variety of practices, including eugenics, the sterilization of the unfit and the protection of the race, all originated from a certain and specific conception of the world and inspired by principles an deep convictions, are questioned from a modern jewish conception of truth in the film (Shatner 's Toupee,
This article teaches others the importance and significance of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, founded by Rabbi Marvin Hier in 1977. When the Memorial was first established it was supported by 380,000 members. The Memorial played an important part in investigating into the Prosecution of Nazi Collaborators around the world and persuading other countries such as Canada, Australia and Great Britain to continue to investigate to search for escaped criminals, in order to go through prosecution for their actions that happened many years ago. To reach out to even more people, documentaries, interviews, books, publications and exhibits are also there for further interest, including the Oscar award winner for the best documentary, Genocide. The memorials
On November 14, 1945, the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials began in Germany. They were to be the definitive judgement of the crimes against humanity by the Nazis. In the midst of the trial, it was determined that the SS, along with its associated organizations such as the Sicherheitsdienst (SD--the security and intelligence organization within the SS) and Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo—State Secret Police), was a criminal organization.1 The verdict placed on the SS was as follows:
The Investigation is a dramatic documentary of the Frankfurt War Crimes trials during the 1960s based on actual evidence from the trial. Weiss strips the trial down to its most essential features and converts it into a powerful play. It consists of extracted testimonies from numerous witnesses and defendants, including moments of examinations and cross-examinations conducted by the prosecutors and defense counsel. The nine unnamed witnesses represent the millions of individuals affected by the Holocaust. They were brought forth to testify to the barbarity of Auschwitz.
Lastly, the Nuremberg trials was one of the biggest events to occur toward Albert Speer. It is because of his work with the Nazi Party and his contribution to the outcome of war, was he being held accountable for his actions. However, through devious remarks and claims that he was unaware of such actions being taken place under his authority, he was sentenced to a lighter penalty than what his fellow collages. Speer was held accountable for four crimes; including the common plan or conspiracy to accomplish… a war aggression, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. However, out of the four crimes, ‘war crimes’ and ‘crimes against humanity’ were the two that would have been the biggest concern for Speer.
When one is being forced to endure the abysmal conditions of those who were imprisoned by Nazi soldiers, one becomes desperate. In times of desperation, the morality of individuals is questioned, to others as well as themselves - whether they realize it or not. Prisoners of
The thematic development of the theme, freedom and confinement was highly predominant in the novel, “Night”, by Elie Wiesel. It was portrayed through the conflict of character vs. character; also, through inner battles like character vs. self. Elie was either trapped mentally or physically, and abused by the people he thought were good in the world. Elie tells us that he was confined in very claustrophobic areas with no way out (physically), that he had all his rights taken away from him and treated like property (physically), and his lost of liberty to think and feel what he wished too; unless thy wanted death to be executed. Hitler and his followers purloined everyone’s freedom and just the simple one that was given to us by some spectacular force, to live in human peace.
This resolution and action on this type of conflict reveals the character of the person. Orders read, “As many Jews, especially rich ones, are to be arrested as can be accommodated in the prison (7).” This order derived from the German government, along with advocate Heinrich Himmler, worshipper of Hitler, Reinhard Heydrich,
Hayes looks at how the Nazi regime's attitude of Jews changed over time, moving from persecution and exclusion to ghettoization and eventually extermination. He points out that the choice to pursue total destruction was the outcome of a complicated interaction of forces rather than being premeditated. Also, Hayes examines Nazi ideology, particularly its anti-Semitic viewpoints, and how they acted as a catalyst for the determination to exterminate European Jews. He contends that this worldview gave Nazis the framework they needed to view Jews as a menace below human status that needed to be eliminated. Next, the chapter dives into the impact of Nazi bureaucracy.
Calamity of Errors, the Holocaust and Adolf Eichmanns Trial The subject and purpose of her work was not just to report on the trial, as requested, she took it further, and analyzed the situation of the man and the people involved with the final solution. All the while never placing blame on anyone person or group, but rather a set of circumstances that unfolded that brought about the death of approximately 6 million humans. Mrs. Arendt, was without the best qualified to tackle such a task; with her previous writings, The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951 which is a very relevant book for the 20th century history scholars; in my opinion she did a superb job reporting this angle of the trial and the mad man it was representing. Hannah Arendt
In the book “The Sunflower”, Simon Wiesenthal, who was the author, was one of the victims of the Holocaust. Within this book, Wiesenthal presents his readers with his problem of whether or not to forgive the disgraceful delinquencies of one of the dying Nazi soldiers. Wiesenthal asks, “Was my silence at the bedside of the dying Nazi right or wrong? This is a profound moral question that challenges the conscience of the reader of this episode, just as much as it once challenged my heart and mind” (Wiesenthal, 97-98).
Events formalize a perceptive framework in accordance with their context, reactions and opinions are shaped by this basis and vary in motives. Albert Speer was an intrinsic and functional part of the Nazi Regime, in his ascension to power spanning over a decade he served as Chief Architect and Minister Of Armaments. His most notable event was The Nuremberg trials in which Speer was convicted with “War Crimes” and “Crimes Against Humanity” to which he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. As an authoritative as well as artistic figure, it’s arguable whether those charges justify his direct or indirect decisions that lead to the participation in enforcing anti-semitic ideology in a broader context, regardless whether Speer was inclined to.
Written by Heinrich von Kleist in 1810, ‘Michael Kohlhaas’ depicts the story of a man who greatly values the virtue of justice. Throughout the text, one witnesses the transformation of the protagonist from a reasonable man who accepts the lawful procedures to an aggressive character who overly lives by his virtue to an extent where he is willing to take any measures to promote public justice. Franz Kafka’s parable ‘Before the law,’ whilst touching upon similar values of the law outlined in ‘Michael Kohlhaas,’ on the other hand, introduces the account of a more reserved man from a countryside who struggles to gain entry to the law. In fact, when one closely scrutinizes these texts, there are numerous comparisons as well as contrasts that one can elicit. But it is precisely this process of carefully analyzing these stories, drawing out both similar and disparate qualities, which allows this dissertation to encourage the reader to consider the futility of the human beings within a legal framework.
In hard cases, judges are not legislating, as Hart’s positivists assert, they are inducing based on principle. Judges have a duty not only to apply the rules, but also to make sure that the legal system is consistent with the principles of the society. When judges are said to legislate, they are not making the rules but discovering them. [20] According to Dworkin understanding the role of the courts is to defend the rights of citizens from the likelihood of unfair rules or other circumstances in which the written laws do not satisfactorily defend their natural rights.
During the Holocaust many Nazi officials committed crimes and many were tried in the Nuremberg Trials. For example, “Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner was the head of the Reich Central Security Office, and was second in command of the ss, he was executed because of multiple accounts
Law personal statement main As a child, looking up to law-enforcers such as police officer’s has made me believe that Law is the backbone of our society. Without it, everyday life would not be tolerable. My passion for law developed when I stepped into the Supreme Court and watched a court case in the Old Bailey.