The Nuremberg Trial Was Fair

The Nuremberg code is a set of laws that give patients more rights when visiting the doctors. This code was put into action in 1947 in the signified the end of the doctor's trials and Nuremberg after World War II. These trials were held in order to punish Nazi war criminals for mistreatment of Jews during wartime. These were a series of 13 trials in Nuremberg Germany.

The Nuremberg Code helped all patients have a voice. During this time, doctors did not necessarily ask for patient consent before doctoring on them, whether these tasks be trivial or surgery. The first law: “The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.” (Evelyne Shuster) forced the doctors to receive consent from the patient before doing anything to them.

There was a fair amount of evidence used for the case: “The accused war criminals were presumed innocent by the tribunal and could not be convicted until their guilt was proven beyond a reasonable doubt. In addition, the defendants were guaranteed the right to challenge incriminating evidence, cross-examine adverse witnesses, and introduce exculpatory evidence of their own. The trials lasted 218 days, with 236 witnesses questioned, 5,330 documents and 200,000 statements submitted as evidence and 25,000 pages of protocol written. The hearings shed light on the dimensions of the Nazi regime's crimes.” (West's Encyclopedia of American Law ) The criminals found guilty were punished by death, or by time in prison: “The verdicts came out on September 30 and October 1, 1946: seven imprisonments, 12 death sentences, and three acquittals.”(Cornelia

One of them being the Nuremberg Trial was actually unfair. It is said in regards of the Nuremberg trials,“To the adverse critics the trial appears in many aspects a negation of principles which they regard as the heart of any system of justice under law.”(Charles E. Wyzanski) This shows many think that the Nuremberg trial was unfair. As well as, The Nazi’s were punished under the universal law, instead of German law:“As Jews were no “real” German citizens anymore, they were not protected by [Law] Quite the opposite: Laws were created for discriminating them. Think of the animal-protection-laws. They were meant to make life harder for jews. It was forbidden to murder other people. However, there had been no law stating that killing a jew was illegal. Because Jews had not been “people” anymore.”(Knut Ritter) This shows that to Germans, it was complicated for Jews, but the things done to them were not