The Nuremburg Trials were carried out by the international military tribunals after the world war two. It was developed by allied forces, with the aim of prosecuting prominent people in the military, economic, and political leadership of the Nazi Germany for the war they had started in Europe. These trials were held in Nuremberg city, Germany, with the first one being held on the 20th of November 1945 (Thacker, 82). This international military tribunal was mandated to put under trial, 23 members of the Germany government who orchestrated the word war two. Adolf Hitler and other top brass of the Nazi government were not included in the trials as they had committed suicide months before the signing of the indictment. Creation of the Courts
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Large amounts of documents were collected from all over the country where they were hidden and presumed indiscernible by the defendants. Some of the documents were found in salt mines, buried deep in the ground or stored in false walls. Most of these documents implicated both individual defendants and the organization who wrote the documents themselves. Most of the documents authenticity was not challenged except for one or two. This therefore left the courts with much more evidence from which judgment was drawn, leaving a number of the defendant’s guilty. Most of the defendants got the harsh penalty of death for conspiring with Adolf Hitler to cause the Second World War. However, some of the defendants were not charged since they were not fit to stand charges due to their state of health. However among the defendants, several other were acquitted their charges after they were found not to have contributed to the world war two as the chapter provided. Among the people whose charges were acquitted include, Dr. Hjalmar Schant, who was a prominent economist and banker. He was connected to the war due to the fact that he was a minister in the Nazi government from 1934 to 1937 and the Reichs bank president as from 1923 to 1930 and then from 1933 to 1938 (Thacker, 90) However it was clear that he was even a victim of the Nazis whereby he was …show more content…
He later on was moved to Australia as Germany’s ambassador, where he served to 1938 before relocating to Turkey where he served up to the year 1944. Even though he was acquitted of charges by the tribunal, in 1947, the German de-Nazification court found him guilty and he was sentenced to 8 years of hard labor (Robinson,56) However, he was acquitted of the charges again two years later after making a successful appeal. Lastly, Hans Fritsch was a popular radio presenter where he headed the Nazi propaganda ministry division. Due to lack f evidence of his involvement in the Jews extermination, he was released from the tribunal
Large amounts of documents were collected from all over the country where they were hidden and presumed indiscernible by the defendants. Some of the documents were found in salt mines, buried deep in the ground or stored in false walls. Most of these documents implicated both individual defendants and the organization who wrote the documents themselves. Most of the documents authenticity was not challenged except for one or two. This therefore left the courts with much more evidence from which judgment was drawn, leaving a number of the defendant’s guilty. Most of the defendants got the harsh penalty of death for conspiring with Adolf Hitler to cause the Second World War. However, some of the defendants were not charged since they were not fit to stand charges due to their state of health. However among the defendants, several other were acquitted their charges after they were found not to have contributed to the world war two as the chapter provided. Among the people whose charges were acquitted include, Dr. Hjalmar Schant, who was a prominent economist and banker. He was connected to the war due to the fact that he was a minister in the Nazi government from 1934 to 1937 and the Reichs bank president as from 1923 to 1930 and then from 1933 to 1938 (Thacker, 90) However it was clear that he was even a victim of the Nazis whereby he was …show more content…
He later on was moved to Australia as Germany’s ambassador, where he served to 1938 before relocating to Turkey where he served up to the year 1944. Even though he was acquitted of charges by the tribunal, in 1947, the German de-Nazification court found him guilty and he was sentenced to 8 years of hard labor (Robinson,56) However, he was acquitted of the charges again two years later after making a successful appeal. Lastly, Hans Fritsch was a popular radio presenter where he headed the Nazi propaganda ministry division. Due to lack f evidence of his involvement in the Jews extermination, he was released from the tribunal