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
Shots within hours. Armenia begins handing over disputed territory to azerbaijan. Im phil gayle. Welcome to the program. 75 years ago today, the trials opened in nuremberg of high ranking members of the nazi dictatorship. Today, a ceremony took place commemorating the historic event, including witnesses from the time. The judicial proceedings with the first of their kind. The nuremberg trials sought to hold individuals to account instead of punishing an entire country and laid the foundations of todays International Criminal court in the hague. 20th, 1945, many leading nazi figures had gone intoiding or committed suicide, including hier but for the first time in history, the rulers of a country had to answer to an International Criminal court. Allies wanted to show that the individuals were being held responsible for the crimes of the nazi not the german people as a whole. The charges against the main war criminals included conspiracy against world peace, planning, unleashing, and cond
Late january 945, shooting its official, the fleeing germans had forced most of the surviving prisoners on death marches to the west. And those left in the camp were the sick and those physically unable to march. She is young. And so was, its only when it gets seduced by suing the willis that was going to do this time. Not all the accused seemed affected by the film him and during pretended to read, yawned, and now and then made sarcastic remarks to hess and ribbentrop to him. It was all just soviet propaganda and the last one was out. Ill be like the owners that i saved our heads last saturday and the number on our left for us. Then we were taken to a large area that to have, a steam bath and an ice cold shower. It was all done in front of s. S. , men, women, and even there we had to strip naked. If im throwing does any of that was how one witness describes the arrival procedures that auschwitz maariv a young cooter. E. A. A. Was a communist resistance fighter from france. On january
It was he who had stopped the furious scorched earth policy at the last moment. Without proof should be a said he had even wanted to assassinate hitler towards the end of the war. Famine during his response, we should never have trusted him. Robert jackson was satisfied that albert spears defense had broken through the united front put up by the others. It seems that good man as a friendly demeanor and public remorse were enough to have an effect on the court. After more than 200. 00 days of hearings, the 8 judges retired. They alone would decide on convictions and sentences. Their decisions would help answer the question of whether governments could now be held accountable for state crimes. Robert jackson felt that his team had produced the necessary evidence to prove the accused guilty. The case had been made, the evidence was overwhelming. The defendants had not been able to exculpate themselves or deny their signatures their presence in meetings, their knowledge of all of the aspec
With demographic information, thinking about the future of our elections. Each year, we have new data, a new report. Says,nk, as the name about the state, not only our country, but how the states are changing over time. We also have different scenarios as to what might happen. In one way, change Voter Preferences in another. Just like every year, we have an interesting new report. We will hear from the authors of that and walk through that. We also have a particular theme this year we are emphasizing generational change. We have now seen jens he enter z entertorate gen the electorate. All of our generations are moving through the electorate. Addressess report that aspect, how things are changing, how they might change, and some of the scenarios, whether voter change their attitudes when the age into different parts of life. They age into different parts of life. We are going to have a presentation of the report. The coauthors of the report are all are three of our important partners. I