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Heard of. One of the most notorious sinner of war camps in the history of modern warfare. It was a confederate prison for Union Soldiers in the southwest of georgia. We will talk about hanging henry wirz. He was executed for perpetuating mistreatment and murder at that can. He was one of the first individuals in the modern era tried for war crimes. Of 1865l in the fall set the precedent for more recent war crimes trials, the nuremberg trials of nazi perpetrators after world war ii, the allied prosecutors preparing for those prosecutions in nuremberg actually studied the wirz trial and his defense so they could prepare for what they anticipated the nazi defense would be. They called it the wirz defense, basically i was only following orders. That was the typical defense. They used his trial to prepare for that in 1945. Ins is an important moment world legal history. We are going to be thinking about the prison andersonville it self ....

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