Chronology
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Famous
World Trials
.
Nuremberg
Trials
. 1945
- 1949
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Meet
the Major War Criminals Trial Defendants
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Charter,
Indictments & Sentences
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The
Major War Criminals Trial:
Transcript
Excerpts
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The
Major War Criminals Trial:
Assorted
Images
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Chief U. S.
Prosecutor
Robert Jackson and Uri Pokrovski,
Assistant Soviet
Prosecutor,
listen to a defense summation
in the Major War
Figures
Trial. |
Courtroom
Diagram with Images
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The
Subsequent Nuremberg Trials:
An
Overview & Images
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The
Medical ("Nazi Doctors") Trial
(Case
No. 1)
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The
Justice ("Nazi Judges") Trial
(Case
No. 3)
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A
Trial Account
by
Douglas O. Linder
No trial
provides a better basis
for understanding the nature and causes of evil than do the Nuremberg
trials
from 1945 to 1949. Those who come to the trials expecting to find
sadistic monsters are generally disappointed. What is shocking
about
Nuremberg is the ordinariness of the defendants: men who may be
good
fathers, kind to animals, even unassuming--yet committed unspeakable
crimes.
Years later, reporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt
wrote
of "the banality of evil." Like Eichmann, most Nuremberg
defendants
never aspired to be villains. Rather, they either overidentified
with an ideological cause or suffered from a lack of imagination: they
couldn't fully appreciate the human consequences of their
career-motivated
decisions....(CONTINUED) |
Famous
Trials
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The
Einsatzgruppen Trial (Case No. 9)
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The
Movie: Judgment at Nuremberg
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Links
& Bibliography
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