War, famine goings 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 is 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. And so 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 aspects of the charges. And so jackson, by the close of the case, is very confident that he has done his job as a prosecutor. Jackson had some concern about what the judges were goin
The palace of justice in nuremberg. After the 2nd world war, nearly 200. 00 defendants were brought here to be held accountable for 12 years of dictatorship, military aggression, tara, and mass murder. At the heart of proceedings was the International Military tribunals, which tried to kill war criminals from germany. The 4 victorious powers responded to the nazis once in a millennium crimes. With a once in a millennium trial, on nov 20th, 194520 high ranking nazi leaders were brought by elevator to the court in room 600. The form a wry smile shall hammon good ring willingly took on the role of most senior nazi. He was followed by grand admiral col du needs whom hitler had appointed as president of the rice in his will. And rudolf hess, hitlers former deputy. The defendants never showed the slightest remorse. It was part of their goals prior to insist that they were right all the time and would do it again. They stood accused of conspiracy to carrying out wars of aggression, war crimes
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
75 years ago, in january it was 1945. The war was over. Slowly, painfully, life came back to the ruins of europe. [music] the war was over. But there was no peace. Despair crouched over the countenance. Hopelessness circled europe like a bird of prey. Why . What were the forces . What were the issues in a war that turns nations into rubble heaps . And populations into beggars . The people wanted the answers. They wanted to know what happened and why. In the palace of justice in nuremberg, the people of the world came together, for there, that the International Military tribunal, to judge the war criminals. [music] Justice Robert h. Jackson, the chief american prosecutor, makes the Opening Statement for the prosecution. The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so mag maglignant and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate th
it was 1945. the war was over. slowly, painfully, life came back to the ruins of europe. the war was over. but there was no peace. despair crouched over the continent. hopelessness circled europe like a bird of prey. why? what were the forces? what were the issues in a war that turned nations into rubble heaps and populations into beggars? the people wanted the answers. they wanted to know what happened and why. in the palace of justice in nuremberg, the people of the world came together, for there, that the international military tribunal to judge the chief nazi war criminals. justice robert h. jackson, the chief american prosecutor, makes the opening statement for the prosecution. the privilege of opening the first trial in history the privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. the wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastat