After World War II when all the camps were liberated, trials were held against the Nazi’s who took part in this genocide. These trials were called the Nuremburg trials. The trials took place between October 20, 1945 and October 1, 1946 . Although Many Nazis felt they were taking orders their punishments through the Nuremburg trials were justified due to the massive loss of life in the concentration as well as the social consequences on families. Throughout the Nuremburg trials there were 8 judges. Only 24 Nazis were indicted for war crimes. Out of those 24 only 22 were tried. 1 of the 24 was not included due to his mental/ physical status and his son committed suicide before the trials. Approximately 200 Nazis were tried for various reasons including murder, maltreatment, abduction, enslavement, and robbery. Due to these charges most got off easily and did not have much of a punishment. During the trials survivors of the Holocaust stood in front of the court to share their stories and testify against the defense. Almost all of these stories were very emotional and had several of the people in the court rooms in tears. Because not everyone spoke the same language so they had translators that you could wear to hear someone translate it from one language to the other. Sometimes, with a couple of the stories people would take their headphones off so they didn’t have to hear any more of the gruesome story. There were 12 trials in total with the major trials being the Justice trial, Einsat trial, and the Poctors trial. Only 12 Nazis were sentenced to death through the entirety of the trials. The Nuremburg trials were well thought out and fair. While many of the Nazis were in fact punished, few received harsh punishments at all. Mos... ... middle of paper ... ...ey survived. These were usually young girls. That disabled them for life and your letting the people that did this to them walk off with a short sentence to jail and then they can go off and live their lives again? This is plenty justified. These people had to stand for hours on end, threatened by dogs and whips, they were hungry and thirsty beyond belief, their families were taken from them, and their hope was taken from them. The Nazis definitely got what they had coming to them. Even after the trials had occurred many people were still looking for justice. Many people did not believe that Hitler was dead. They thought he was still alive and in hiding and they wanted to find him to kill him. They wanted to issue justice to him. They even had Nazi hunters who went all over the world tracking down and capturing Nazis to bring them back to have their own trial.
The Nuremberg Trials was unethically run and violated the rights of the Nazi leaders who were convicted of committing crimes against humanity. Primarily because the Allies sought to use the trials as a way to remind the Germans, who won the war ‘again’. Thus making it similar to the Treaty of Versailles in (19- ), through implying this notion of “Victors’ Justice”. Nevertheless, the Allies did to an extent ‘try’ to make the tribunal as ethical as possible,
...e already died from starvation. Than they were transported to the concentration camps where they were worked to death, some gassed for no apparent reason. Reading and learning about what these innocent people had to go through makes me sick. Millions and millions died in this horrific act of injustice.
If you have been in a History class you have probably heard of an event that happened after World War Two called the Nuremberg Trials. These trials were conducted by the United States. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson was appointed to lead the trials (Berenbaum). During these trials they charged with Crimes against the Peace, War crimes and Crimes against Humanity (Berenbaum). Many major Nazi leaders committed suicide before officials could hang them or before even being caught. The famous Doctor Goebbels killed his children then him and his wife committed suicide (Berenbaum). Only twelve out of the twenty-two who stood trial were hanged, twelve, while the rest just got prison time. Besides major Nazi officials, Physicians were put on trial, the people who were part of the mobile killing squads, Concentration camp officials, Judges and Executives who sold concentration camps Zyklon B. You can expect that they had many excuses, but m...
"While fighting for victory the German soldier will observe the rules for chivalrous warfare. Cruelties and senseless destruction are below his standard" , or so the commandment printed in every German Soldiers paybook would have us believe. Yet during the Second World War thousands of Jews were victims of war crimes committed by Nazi's, whose actions subverted the code of conduct they claimed to uphold and contravened legislation outlined in the Geneva Convention. It is this legislature that has paved the way for the Jewish community and political leaders to attempt to redress the Nazi's violation, by prosecuting individuals allegedly responsible. Convicting Nazi criminals is an implicit declaration by post-World War II society that the Nazi regime's extermination of over five million Jews won't go unnoticed.
The Milgram experiment was designed and performed by Yale University social psychologist Stanley Milgram in 1961. Milgram created this experiment predominately to determine what would have motivated Germans to so readily conform to the demands put forth by the Nazi party. Milgram wished to answer his question, “Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?” (McLeod). At the time of these experiments, debates about the Nuremberg trials, particularly the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major perpetrators in the Holocaust, were still ongoing. At these trials, many Nazi party officials and military officers were put on trial for committing “crimes against humanity.” Although some defendants pleaded guilty, others claimed that they were innocent and only following orders that were given to them by a higher authority, Adolf Hitler. In the end, twelve of the defendants were sentenced to death, three to life in prison, four to approximately fifteen year prison terms, and three were acquitted (“The Nuremberg Trials”)....
Although Elie Wiesel gives you a detailed account of how the Nazis would treat them; how it slowly started to dehumanize them. For example the Nazis took away their names. “We were told to roll up our left sleeves and file past the table. The three “veteran” prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name.” (Wiesel 42) Not to mention the Nazis put so much fear into the Jews that they would commit cruel acts that they never imagined they could do. The selection process was another such scarring event that Nazis inflicted on the Jews to put much fear in them. It caused them to do whatever it took to survive. The selection process is when the prisoners would get completely naked and go in front of the SS doctors for examination, the advice given to the Jews is run in front of the doctors, not to walk. Then there were also random beatings for example: “One day when Idek was venting his fury, I happened to cross his path. He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and picking me up again, crushing me with ever more violent blows, until I was covered in blood. As I bit my lips in order not to howl with pain, he must have mistaken my silence for defiance and so he continued to hit me harder and harder. Abruptly, he calmed down and sent me back to work as if nothing had happened. As if we had taken part in a game in which both roles were of equal importance.” (Wiesel 53) Among all the disturbing things Nazis did, the fact that they would make Jews look in the face of a hanging corpse is something I do not think they will ever forget. “Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing…
The Rosenberg trial, which ended in a double execution in 1953, was one of the century's most controversial trials. It was sometimes referred to as, "the best publicized spy hunt of all times" as it came to the public eye in the time of atom-spy hysteria. Husband and wife, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were charged with conspiracy to commit espionage. Most of the controversy surrounding this case came from mass speculation that there were influences being reinforced by behind-the-scenes pressure, mainly from the government, which was detected through much inconsistencies in testimonies and other misconduct in the court. Many shared the belief that Ethel Rosenberg expressed best as she wrote in one of her last letters before being executed, "-knowing my husband and I must be vindicated by history.
After World War II the world began to here accounts of the atrocities and crimes committed by the Nazi’s to the Jews and other enemies of the Nazis. The international community wanted answers and called for the persecution of the criminals that participated in the murder of millions throughout Europe. The SS was responsible for playing a leading role in the Holocaust for the involvement in the death of millions of innocent lives. Throughout, Europe concentration camps were established to detain Jews, political prisoners, POW’s and enemies of the Third Reich. The largest camp during World War II was Auschwitz under the command of SS Lieutenant Colonel Rudolf Hoess; Auschwitz emerged as the site for the largest mass murder in the history of the world. (The, 2005)
...s of the Holocaust, the Allies held the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46, which made the horrifying actions of the Nazis known all over. The Ally forces pressured Germany to create a homeland for those who suffered through the Holocaust. Over the decades that followed, ordinary Germans struggled with the Holocaust’s bitter legacy, as survivors and the families of victims tried to regain their property and wealth that was taking away during the Holocaust. In 1953, the German government made payments to individual Jews and to the Jewish people as a way of apologizing for the crimes which were committed by the German people.
One of the Reichsbahn Railyard workers in the Auschwitz Railyards explains a terrible incident when cleaning out the rail cars and says, “A blackened corpse fell out. The car was still filled with the deportees who had died on the train” (Barthelmass). The fact that people died on these trains show that the employees did not treat them well. This shows how badly these Jewish deportees were treated on the trains, whether the workers knew that they died or not. Another instance that shows how badly the German workers treated the Jews is shown by a locomotive engineer from the Treblinka Death Camp, Henrik Gawkowski. This man states, “Since the locomotive was next to the cars, I could hear their screams, asking for water. The screams from the cars closest to the locomotive could be heard very well” (Gawkowski). He then goes on to say that he drank liquor to drown out these screams. This classifies the German workers as perpetrators because they did nothing to help the Jews. They knew that the Jews were dying, and they know how to help them, by giving them water, yet they still did nothing to help them. The Jews died in the trains on these workers’ watches. The fact is that the German railway workers knew that the Jews on the trains were in pain and dying, yet they did nothing to help them, so these workers can clearly be classified as perpetrators and not just
Was the Rosenberg trial a fair trial? This has been a very controversial and debated question throughout the 20th century. Many people believe that the Rosenbergs where innocent but had an unfair trial. Others believe that the Rosenbergs had a fair trial and are guilty because of their involvement with espionage and the Soviet Union. Overall the Trial is still a very controversial because of their involvement with communism, their convictions of espionage, and their show of treason against he United States with the Soviets. Before the Rosenbergs were convicted of espionage, events took place first that made America anti-Communism. According to Douglas Linder, on March 1917 the Russian Revolution began which was the beginning of Communism. Another event was in 1939, when Britain and Germany went to war (James Sweeney). America looked down on Communism after confrontations with Germany and the Soviet Union. In 1917 an Espionage Act is put into terms (Douglas Linder). According to Douglas Linder, in 1923, a Communist Party was formed into the United States. Megan Barnett thought that the Rosenberg's joined a Communist Party due to Hitler's carnage.
The Nuremberg trials, first and foremost, set a precedent for international cooperation to see that anybody who did what the Nazis did would face justice.. Prior to the trials, there really was no procedure for these kinds of events. Everything changed with those trials after the war. The creation of that International Military Tribunal became a model for other ones. The Hague in the Netherlands serves as an excellent example, as it was created to address crimes done during the Balkan Wars. International Military
Another reason to exterminate these autocrat war criminals is how deadly they were. On this occasion guards told us what the other’s have done it’s indeed awful what Bavarian Gendarmerie came up with to kill Jews in different ways “he was chasing a jew [...] And asked if he would want some water. To clarify the fact that he literally chased a Jew until they were exhausted to the point of thirst is insane that he made a Jew kneel down [...] and when he bent down to drink, he pushed his head down underwater with his foot and held him until he drowned”(Farber 4). Bavarian Gendarmerie drowned a Jew by his foot we would not tolerate this behavior. All of these Nazi’s action would be a disgrace to generations that we did these followed orders to execute a certain group when they have done nothing wrong and were evicted from their homes and gave up
So far, Judgement at Nuremberg is an interesting film. I’ve only seen half of it, but I have a feeling that I already know the general tone of the film which is to prove that not all Germans are monsters, and that many of them were pressured into pledging allegiance to the Fuhrer because of fear of punishment by the government and other fanatical citizens at the time. This is clearly shown through the housekeepers where the Judge is staying, and, whom I believe is his love interest, Mrs. Bertholt. They are characterized as innocent people who did nothing wrong besides being a German in Germany during Nazi rule. This theme is also demonstrated through the drunk German men outside of a bar. We are introduced to these characters during the scene
On July 7, 1937, the imperial Japanese army marched into Manchuria, China, and began to commit horrendous acts against the Chinese and other Asian countries alike. These war crimes included, rape, mass murder, human experimentation, biological warfare, torture, cannibalism, forced labor, and more. After the war, these crimes were to be judged by what is known as the “Tokyo Trials”. The Tokyo trials were very similar to the Nuremburg trials as they were both done to judge the crimes of the losers of the war. These trails were held to make sure the losers recognized that what they had done, was in fact, wrong. However, the conclusion to the Tokyo Trials had seemingly no effect on Japan as Japan has yet, to issue any “formal” apologies to China