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3. The Nuremberg Trials Room
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4. Nuremberg Prisoners Room
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5. Evidence Room
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6. Nuremberg trials Testimony, and death
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7. Nuremberg: The Movie
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8. Artifact 1
The Nuremberg trials were an early experiment in simultaneous translation. The charter of the International Military Tribunal stated that the defendants had the right to a fair trial and that, accordingly, all proceedings be translated into a language that the defendants understood. Each of the four international judges also had to understand the proceedings. The US Company IBM developed a translation system based upon an earlier translation system it had installed at the League of Nations in In this earlier system, speeches were pre-translated and then read simultaneously in the various languages.
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9. Artifact 2
Nuremberg had witnessed the infamous Nazi Party rallies and by holding the trials there, it would emphasize the party's end. Also the large Palace of Justice had been largely undamaged by Allied bombing and it contained a large prison within its complex which was convenient for the Allies.
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10. Artifact 3
There were 25 prisoners in the Nuremberg Trials. All of them faced four possible indictments that they could be charged with. Of the 25 prisoners, twelve were sentenced to death, two were sentenced to 20 years in prison, one got 10 years in prison, one got 15 years in prison, three were sentenced to life in prison, and six were acquitted.
1) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of crime against peace.
2) Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crime against peace.
3) War Crimes
4) Crimes against humanity.
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11. Artifact 4
Marie Claude Vallant-Couturier was 33 when she testified against the Nazis. She provided a particularly powerful testimony about what she saw at Auschwitz in She described how she once saw a young boy refuse to give his pet dove to a Nazi and was shot. She also told of how she heard that when the Nazis had run out of gas once, they threw the children into the furnace alive! She said that while separating those who would go tot eh gas chambers and those who would survive, the Nazi orchestra were playing happy, joyous songs.
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Herman Goering, a top Nazi official, surrendered to the U.S. on May 6th, When he rose to power in the Nazi Party in 1932, Hitler allowed him to create the Gestapo and establish concentration camps. Goering once attempted to take Hitler’s title as Furher when it seemed that Hitler was powerless. Hitler then stripped him of his titles and ranks and put him under house arrest. When Hitler committed suicide to avoid capture, Goering left his house and immediately went to the Americans and surrendered. When in prison, he finally got off his morphine addiction.He begged to be shot instead of hanged and when his request was vetoed, he took his own life using potassium cyanide.
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The Nuremberg Trials were held in the Palace of Justice. There were four chief prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials: Robert H. Jackson (United States), Francois de Menthon (France), Roman A. Rudenko (Soviet Union), and Sir Hartley Shawcross (Great Britain)
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All of the prisoners plaeded not guilty for their crimes and all were convicted. The indicted include Hermann Goering (Hitler's heir designate) and Rudolf Hess (deputy leader of the Nazi party).
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This is where the prisoners stayed during the trials. Clearly, they didn’t have many things in their cells, although Herman Goering managed to sneak in a cyanide crystal pill, which he used to kill himself so he wouldn’t be hanged. The cells were small and miserable, but the prisoners were allowed to have certain things in there, like cosmetics- to freshen up before they appeared on trial.
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16. Artifact 9
There was a video shown at the Nuremberg War Trials that showed the terrible and miserable conditions there. A slideshow put together that showed Leipzig, Penig, Hadamar, Breendonck, Nordhausen, Arnstadt, Mauthausen, Buchenwald, and Dachau. It showed the furnaces, the gas chambers, and the state of the prisoners.
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In a video shown during the Nuremberg trials, there was a map at the beginning showing the locations of Nazi concentration camps. The red on the map to the right are death camps and the green are concentration camps, labor camps.
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This is the first part of the opening statement of the Nuremberg trials. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson gave the opening statement, and later presented the video that proved the terrible truth of the Nazis’ concentration camps. (Artifact 9)
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Photographs, artifacts, and a map presented as evidence at the International Military Tribunal. Nuremberg, Germany, between November 20, 1945, and October 1, 1946.
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Albert Speer was present at the session of the Reichstag of 30th January 1939, were Hitler told Albert all Jews were to be annihilated. He died September 1, In his testimony he admits to feel guilt to having approved of the persecution of the Jews and of the murder of millions of them. The tribunal finds that Speer is not guilty on counts one, and two, but is guilty under counts three and four.
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Rudolf Hoess had his testimony on Monday, April 15, He was hung to death after his testimony on April 16, He was proven guilty. Admitting to the massacre of 2 million Jews, all men, women, and children. He also adds he was commander of the camp Auschwitz, from 1940 to 1943.
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Hermann Goering’s testimony took place March 19, Goering died in October 15, 1946, he was charged on four counts (crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity). He was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. However, on the eve of his scheduled execution, he committed suicide by ingesting cyanide in his prison cell.
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Hans Munch was a part of the German Nazi party. In his testimony Hans admits to already being aware of the extermination camps. He was proven un guilty, and died in 2001.
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In the movie Nuremberg, Brian Cox plays Herman Goering, a top Nazi official who turned himself into the Americans on May 6, 1945.
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In the movie Nuremberg, Alec Baldwin played Robert Jackson, the U.S. Prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials.
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The four chief prosecutors of the Nuremberg Trials: Robert H. Jackson (United States), Francois de Menthon (France), Roman A. Rudenko (Soviet Union), and Sir Hartley Shawcross (Great Britain). Jackson was the head prosecutor during the trials.
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In the movie Nuremberg, Goering (Brian Cox) surrenders. He hands over his weapons and acts completely friendly. The soldiers get suspicious when he first drives up because of the Nazi flags on his car, (in the bottom left corner of the picture.)
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The movie Nuremberg, starring Alec Baldwin and Brian Cox, shows a detailed performance of what happened during the Nuremberg trials. The film follows Jackson from his preparations for the trial to the outcome of the trial itself, paying particular attention to the interplay between Jackson and the Nazi thugs he is trying to prosecute.
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The Nuremberg Trials were criminal proceedings against 23 leading German physicians and administrators for their willing participation in war crimes and crimes against humanity. In Nazi Germany, German physicians planned and enacted the "Euthanasia" Program, the murdering of those they deemed "unworthy of life." The victims included the mentally retarded, the institutionalized mentally ill, and the physically impaired. Most of the victims were Jews, Poles, Russians, and also Roma (Gypsies).
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30. Artifact 23
The outcome of the Nuremberg Trials: On October 1, 1946 the judgement was read; twelve of the defendants were sentenced to death, three sentenced to life imprisonment, four given prison sentences ranging from ten to twenty years, and three were acquitted.
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Dr. Joseph Mengele was a Nazi doctor who experimented on the patients. In 1937 Mengele joined the Nazi Party. The following year, the same year in which he received his medical degree, he joined the SS. In June 1940, Mengele was drafted into the army, and thereafter volunteered into the medical service of the Armed SS. He was charged with crimes against humanity for the terrible experiments he did. He was never captured.
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