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