Nuremburg Trials Research Paper

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At the time of their occurrences, the Nuremburg trials really meant one thing to most people: the war really was over. The terror of war and all that came with it had come to an end, and it was time to find who was to blame. Top Nazi brass were brought in to answer for their crimes against humanity. The war was not the extent of it, as the world would find out. They had also played an instrumental part in the systematic extermination of six million people. The indictment of Nazi officials for their crimes set a precedent for international cooperation as well as the prosecution of similar criminals which has affected the world up to the present in a very virtuous way. 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 …show more content…

One was the United Nations Genocide Convention (History.com Staff). It was in that convention that the legal definition of genocide was created so that it could be more effectively prosecuted in international law. Another resolution was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The declaration outlined fundamental human rights. Through it, for the first time, slavery was banned on a global scale. Another interesting note was that it declared the right for citizens to own property as a fundamental one (United Nations). These laws were created as a direct result of the Nuremberg trials and was a huge step forward in international criminal

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