Rudolf Hoess was the Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp during World War II. Under his command it is estimated that ...
With Justin Trudeau set to resign as prime minister of Canada, and a federal election on the horizon, now is a crucial moment to reflect on Canada’s post-WWII leadership and its often-overlooked ...
Eighty years after its liberation, the camp stands as a monument to leaving unrestrained our basest, darkest tendencies.
Many defendants argued successfully that they ... in the trial to show how insignificant he was. “There were the Nuremberg trials after the war, where the big shots and responsible officers ...
The Nuremberg trials of 24 top Nazi leaders opened on 20 November 1945, establishing the first international criminal court. Eleven defendants were hanged on 16 October 1946, while Hermann Göring ...
The Nuremberg trials, history’s first international ... mounting slow and shallow responses—it has convicted only eleven defendants in its history, all of whom were African.
But because the case is still active against two of Trump’s co-defendants, Attorney General Merrick Garland ... once the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials for Nazis. Without regard for ...
But because the case is still active against two of Trump’s co-defendants ... once the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials for Nazis. Without regard for politics, “or the possible ...
It is a prosecutor filing criminal charges against criminal defendants. Ok ... means this hadn’t happened since World War 2, since Nuremberg and Tokyo. And after creating these temporary ...
The United States held 12 additional trials in Nuremberg after the initial International Military Tribunal. Of the 199 defendants tried, 161 were convicted, and 37 were sentenced to death.
When their conquest plans collapsed and their genocide was ended, the world expected that such men would be punished, and in August 1947 the US-organised Nuremberg War Criminal ... 10 of the 24 ...