US History

Create a list of the 5 worst crimes you can imagine on the back of your handout Learning Goal: Students will be able to explain the purpose of the Nuremburg Trials

Genocide - murder on a large scale Tribunal - a military court (not a normal court with a jury and judge) Nuremburg – a major city in Germany where the trials were held

Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949 Twenty-four major political and military leaders of Nazi Germany, indicted for aggressive war, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, were brought to trial before the International Military Tribunal

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ( ) committed suicide / never brought to trial. the legal justifications for the trials and were controversial at the time Nuremberg trials are now regarded as a milestone toward the establishment of a permanent international court

Definition: acts of violence, such as murder, enslavement, deportation or forcible transfer, rape, torture, enforced disappearances or the crime of apartheid (racial separation), when: Committed as part of a widespread and systematic attack Against the civilian population, and; Where the perpetrator had knowledge of the specific attack

War Crimes War crimes are acts of violence that are described as "grave breaches" in the Geneva Conventions, such as torture, willful killing or the taking of hostages

What was the purpose of the Nuremburg Trials? Who was supposed to be brought to justice?