Examining the Legality and Fairness of Nuremberg Trials

The Nuremberg Trials: The Legality of International Trial and Fairness of Nuremberg

The Nuremberg Trials seem like a possible vendetta to imprison those who disagree with the groups who won the Second World War. This is a feasible argument because at the trials there were twenty-two Nazis and no one else to be investigated. The goal of the trial was to set an example of these war criminals and to add a reason to not engage in unnecessary conflict. According to Dr. von Knieriem of the American Bar Association there was no standard international law that should have been upheld, rather, the defendants should have been held to their native countries own law. On October 1, 1946 the International Military Tribunal announced verdicts; three were

The organization was highly effective in punishment but lacked in the other goals. Over half of the defendants were sentenced to death and all but three received some sort of punishment. That means that in this circumstance the punishment of war crimes had an eighty-six percent effectiveness rate. However, the reason to not engage in war and conflict did not last. Just a few years later there were multiple more conflicts. It is reasonable to believe that this would be because the countries involved in those conflicts did not suffer any of the consequences of the Nuremberg Trials. This lacks effectiveness. The International Military Tribunal needed to engage in full distain and not accept any sort of conflict no matter who was involved. Conflicts where the allies were involved were not tried which is hypocritical of the goal. International Law did not gain any massive or astounding changes, excluding the establishment of the United Nations, rather simple clarifications for what law would be upheld and what was

Today, there is more regulation and specific ways of handling situations like this. The trials accomplished so much in their impact on international law, however it lacked in its own goals. Justice was served as well as it could be by the courts. Though the trials moral obligation could be questioned, for the time in history it was indisputably legal. Finding a way to legally try the Nazi officials was imperative to the humanity of the men who fought and died as well as all of the victims of the