Over disputed territory too. As a potshot contentious peace deal. Several districts in the colder region of placed under the sand and time for welcome to the program. 75 years ago today, trials opened the nuremberg of high ranking members of the nazi dictatorship. Today in the city. A ceremony took place commemorating this historic event, including witnesses from the time. The judicial proceedings for the 1st of their current nuremberg trial sought to hold individuals to account, instead of punishing an entire country. They also laid the foundations of todays International Criminal court in the hague price, marshall, Herman Gehring hitlers Deputy Rudolf Hess and chief archaeologist Alfred Rosenberg in the dark on nov 20th, 1945. Many of the leading nazi figures had by then gone into hiding or committed suicide, including hitler. But for the 1st time in history, the rulers of a country had to answer to an International Criminal court. The allies wanted to show that the individuals would
Major war criminal trial in nuremberg was revolutionary. The beginning of International Criminal justice. Our first fair, very fall. Without nuremberg, there would be less hope of justice for the victims also on the day, saudi arabia is hosting the g 20 summit with the coronavirus at the top of the agenda. But its the countries human rights record thats in the spotlight. 20 presidency, the government of saudi arabia has been hard at work trying to rebrand its image. And yet behind these initiatives and reform, the reality on the ground is that there is a brutal crackdown by the saudi authorities. National welcome to the day we begin with the 75th anniversary of the nuremberg trials have followed world war 2. A landmark event in history. It was the 1st International Tribunals of war criminals. Defendants included the top members of germanys nazi regime, who survived the war, and they faced charges including crimes and crimes against humanity. The trial of the original 24. 00 defendants
Project. Busy people get things done, and we knew we were in for it when dr. Whittenberg talked about that. Jonathan white has to be the busiest young scholar in the field today. Hes not only a prolific historian, with more projects on the back burners than ive ever seen on the stove before. He won the outstanding faculty award for academic education. Hes a parent of young children, i dont know where john finds the time. Hes been very generous with what remaining time he has from all of that for this museum and our Education Programs for which were all very grateful. As you can see from your printed programs, the topics of johns work are his published work are many and varied with something of a focus Abraham Lincoln with the legal and constitution, as well and hes coauthor of a book entitled Civic Education and the work of citizenship and because he has news they wrote our little monitor, the greatest invention of this civil war. I asked him to put it on a topic, and it draws from oth
Outcome of the election now hinges on 4 states where mainly postal votes are being tallied. In other news the u. N. Calls for an immediate deescalation intentions ethiopias Prime Minister calls in troops into the tikrit province following in attack on a military base. Welcome to the program democratic candidate joe biden is now just 6 Electoral College votes away from the u. S. Presidency after flipping michigan and wisconsin which donald trump now really won 4 years ago biden now has a total of 264 Electoral College votes while donald trump has 214 now remember the magic number to become president is 270 here in yellow you can see the state still in play nevada in the western georgia and North Carolina in the south and up there in the northeast as pennsylvania powers lot of legal action in several states over the votes still being counted well lets look at Georgia State stream really close race there doldrums initial lead has been steadily falling most of the remaining votes are from
The next 30 minutes donald trump demands a recount and files lawsuits in key states as his path to victory narrows also the outcome of the election hinges on 4 states where mainly postal votes are now being tallied. And in other news the u. N. Calls for an immediate deescalation of tensions as ethiopias Prime Minister calls in troops into tikrit province following an attack on a military base. Welcome to the program democratic candidate joe biden is now just 6 Electoral College votes away from the u. S. Presidency after flipping michigan and wisconsin which donald trump now really won 4 years ago by now has a total of 264 Electoral College votes while donald trump has 214 now remember the magic number to become president is 270 here in yellow you can see the state still in play nevada in the west and georgia North Carolina in the south and theyre up in the north pennsylvania donald trump has launched legal action in several states over the votes being counted well lets look at georgia