Letters From a Soldier » 1945 https://blog.lettersfromasoldier.com Letters Written to and From a Soldier Wed, 11 Nov 2015 02:56:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Nuremberg Trials https://blog.lettersfromasoldier.com/index.php/2010/10/nuremberg-trials/ https://blog.lettersfromasoldier.com/index.php/2010/10/nuremberg-trials/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:32:23 +0000 http://lettersfromasoldier.com/wpblog/?p=3 Continue reading →]]> On October 1, 1946, The International War Crimes Tribunal sentenced twelve Nazis to death and seven others to prison and three were set free. In August 1945, there was a series of thirteen trials known as the Nuremberg Trials. They were termed as crimes against a nation. The crimes committed were so horrific that there was and is much debate as to whether a soldier should be held responsible for offenses their government did not consider a crime, but that world courts later decided were.

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