Nuremberg: The Trial of Major War Criminals
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Nuremberg Trials
There were war crimes, certainly there. Crimes against humanity. Geneside came up comparatively late. There was also a general conspiracy to conduct war crimes and crimes against peace. The american legal system loves conspiracy because this is where they usually get high level commercial criminals or former presidents. And in the end, the british and the french approach also was, these people committed crimes. They committed murder, and we will therefore charge them with, and hope to convict them of murder. But essentially, it was murder and war crime and crimes against humanity which were the main charges which were brought against these people.
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