More than 70 years later, the prosecution of a 94-year-old former SS guard renews questions ... Amherst College who has studied Nazi crimes. But these new trials are considered symbolically ...
Radio 4's Nuremberg tells the entire story of the trial of the most notorious ... of starting unprovoked wars and the known war crimes – a Waffen SS Division, for instance, had machine-gunned ...
Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin formally stated their determination to bring Nazi war criminals ... to proceed with a trial, appointing ...
A description of how Jewish victims at Auschwitz were forced by an SS officer called “a killer ... announced that a series of other major war crimes trials has been scheduled to open soon.
In a quiet voice, heavy with strain, FrauMeyer told how she had been “supremely happy” with SS Major GeneralKurt Meyer, whose five children were “very much attached to him.” Then,for ten ...
The SS tried to do what they could to conceal ... and eventually at Nuremberg as part of the war crime trials. Whitney Harris, Member of the Prosecuting team, Nuremberg Trial: "He struck me ...
A piece of Holocaust history — a Nazi concentration camp built on Alderney, a British island — has been largely forgotten.
Fixated on this objective, the Nuremberg war crimes trial went ahead and a de-Nazification ... agencies and Germans who had been in the SS and Gestapo and had participated in the Holocaust.
In the case of the Nuremberg war crime trials after WW2 (recreated in Radio ... the Doctors, the Judges, the SS Officers and so forth. Men like Otto Ohlendorf, the SS Commander who had testified ...
war crimes, and membership in a criminal organization” and sentenced to death. You can watch a depiction of the trial in the movie The Eichmann Show. The Democratic National Convention ...
In 2015, 94-year-old former German SS ... crimes committed under the Third Reich. Many of the lawyers and judges writing the new legal code were themselves former Nazis. The vast majority of Nazi ...
Japanese defendants accused of war crimes were tried by the Tokyo Charter, and all 25 defendants were convicted, seven of whom were sentenced to hang. These two trials cemented the idea that ...