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A MOMENT WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET: THE NUREMBERG TRIALS

November 20th, 2009 | 11:59 am

Today is the 64th anniversary of the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials, the first in a series of trials that showcased for the world to witness the fair and open deliberations victims of the Nazi regime never had.  This was the last significant moment when the victorious Allies were united.  The fractious geopolitical developments that followed would pit east against west as the battle for hegemony was underway.

So let’s remember a time when all sides were able to stand united against the greatest evil of the 20th century and gave justice its long overdue chance to reappear in Germany.

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Shown in the photo above – Front Row from Left to Right

Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walther Funk, Hjalmar Schacht

Back Row Left to Right

Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Konstantin von Neurath, Hans Fritzsche

The former leaders of Hitler’s Third Reich on trial in Nuremberg, Germany. The Nuremberg trial was conducted by a joint United States-British-French-Soviet military tribunal, with each nation supplying two judges. The four counts in the indictment were: Count 1 – CONSPIRACY to commit crimes alleged in the next three counts. Count 2 – CRIMES AGAINST PEACE including planning, preparing, starting, or waging aggressive war. Count 3 – WAR CRIMES including violations of laws or customs of war. Count 4 – CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY including murder, extermination, enslavement, persecution on political or racial grounds, involuntary deportment, and inhumane acts against civilian populations.

Most of the above text is from “The History Place”. To read the rest of what happen at the Nuremberg Trial, please click the link: http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/nurem.htm.

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