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=The Nuremberg Trials and Their Legacy=

====﻿The Holocaust was an unprecedented crime-a crime composed of millions of murders and there were tortures of rape, theft and all kinds of distructions. In the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, the world was faced with a challenge-how to seek justice for an almost unimaginable scale of criminal behavior.==== ====Nazi Germany planned the Holocaust within the beginning of the tragic World War II. It was in the trial of judgment for war crimes and the imt was not a court to put out punishment for the Holocaust alone. The tribunal was designed to document and redress crimes committed in the course of the most massive conflict the world has ever known.By far the most important of these was the great Nuremberg trial of 1945-1946, officially known as the International Military Tribunal IMT. The governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France put on trial the most prominent surviving German leaders as Major War Criminals for various "war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity. In the words of the Tribunal's Charter, these Nazi conspirators carried out their crimes as part of a great Common Plan or Conspiracy.In addition, twelve secondary Nuremberg trials nmt organized by the US government alone were conducted between 1946 to 1949.====

**﻿The political justice**
====The Nuremberg violated ancient principles of justice and the victorious allies acted as prosecutor, judge of the German leaders. The charges were created especially for the occasion, and were applied only to the vanquished. Defeated, starving, prostrate Germany was, however, in no position to opposed the allied occupation powers demanded.Even some leading allied figures privately acknowledged at the time, the nuremberg trials were organized not to dispense impartial justice, but for political purposes. Sir Norman Birkett, British alternate judge at the Nuremberg Tribunal, explained in a private letter in April 1946 that the trial is only in form a judicial process and its main importance is political.==== ====The World Jewish Congress also played an important but less obvious role in the day to day proceedings. Above all, the powerful but secretive organization made sure that Germany's persecution of the Jews was a primary focus of the trials, and that the defendants were punished for their involvement in that process.==== ====Marcus who was a fervent zionist became the number three man in making American policy in occupied Germany. Chief of the US governments War Crimes Branch in 1946 and 1947, he selected almost all of the judges, prosecutors and lawyers for the Nuremberg NMT Trials. He later became a commander of the "Haganah" military forces in Palestine.Some of the Americans who participated in the Nuremberg trials became disillusioned with the entire business. One of the few to make public his feelings was Charles Wennerstrum a Iowa supreme court justice who served as presiding judge in the Nuremberg trial of German generals. "If I had known seven months ago what I know today, I would never have come here and he declared immediately after sentences were pronounced. "The high ideals announced as the motives for creating these tribunals have not been evident and he had added.====