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 sat the International Military tribunal to judge the chief nazi war criminals. Just as robd 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 devastating that civilization c
April 1945 the 2nd world war in europe was drawing to an end in berlin. Germanys defeat was inevitable the fighting exceptionally fierce. The world was beginning to grasp the unprecedented scale of the conflict. More than 50000000 people lost their lives no warhead ever claimed so many casualties military and civilian. Soldiers of the victorious allied forces discovered the concentration camps. In germany american troops were so appalled by what they found they brought civilians from the surrounding area to see the horrors of the camps with their own eyes. Many germans claimed to have know nothing of what went on in the camps or the holocaust. At the post war nor back war crimes trials even some leading nazis proclaimed their ignorance when confronted with evidence of the atrocities. Would be to get a Bigger Company british prosecutor frederick l. When jones was among those who insisted this could not be the case he believed that there had been a virtual blueprint for the holocaust a g
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A frequent visitor its believed she would have been the one who provided what was such an expensive machine at the time the typewriter in those days was quite a sensation. Hitler had time on his hands his Political Party had to be rebuilt and he had court costs and legal fees to pay a book seemed like a good idea. Persistent myth was born during this period that hitler the orator would not have written anything himself instead he dictated his thoughts to a meal more peace and hold office. But recent research has concluded that hitler typed at least the 1st volume of his manifesto himself in prison. Ship the wrote the 1st volume in lands back by himself of his couldnt type very well and only started learning how to type in prison. None of the others helped him either he talked about it alone on his typewriter the idea that hitler dictated his book in lands back is a myth its simply untrue. Hitler recast his own history with himself in the starring role. Hes believed to have read dozens