War Crime Trials

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War crime trials was to punish the Axis war criminal. The trials of taking in the Germans officers such as the Nazi party leader that had committed inhuman crimes toward humanity was taken into before the IMT in Nuremberg, Germany. The IMT defined crimes against humanity was to be called murder and among that 12 of them were sentenced to death as for the rest were either not guilty or sent to prison from the range of 10 or 20 years. The IMT also conducted a 12 further trials against these high ranking Germany officials which was also called Subsequent Nuremberg

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