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Yata Conference
Rosevelt, Churchill,and Stalin state, "It is our inflexible purpose to destroy German militarism and Nazism and ... to bring all war criminals to just and swift punishment." -
Adolf Hitler Committs Suicide
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WWII ends in Europe
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Robert Jackson leaves for London
Dicuss how they are going to try Nazis
Use American/British system where go against criminals
Decidecriminalscan't argue that they were only following orders -
Jackson visits Nuremberg
Decide trials will open in Berlin to please Soviet Union and then take place in Nuremberg. -
Hiroshima Bombing
US drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan killing 80,000 and inhirung 140,00
3 days later US drops a bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, killing 42,000 and injuring 40,000 -
London Charter Signed
the International Military Tribunal (IMT) with from all countries -
WWII Over, Japan surrenders
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IMT Indicts 24 Nazis
4 counts
Agressive war, crimes agianst peace, wat crimes, and crimes against humanity -
IMT Comes Together for the 1st Time
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Offical DAte of Nuremberg Trials
In Nuremberg, Germany
Tribunal makes decisions- panel of two judges from Allied Powers (UK, US, USSR, France)
The defense's main arguement was that the laws wre created after the crime, and their puishment was due to "victor's justice" -
Defendants Enter Not Guilty Plea
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Evidence of Buchenwald Camp
Shows tatooed skin
Shrunken head of killed polish used as paperweight -
Declare Nazi Prosecution
Great Britain, the Uniteds States, and Soviet Union state that the way that the jewish people were treated during WWII is wrong and all that participated will be prosecuted -
Prosececute 7 Nazi Organizations
the Nazi Party leadership
the German High Command
the Schutzstaffel (SS) or Protective Squadron
Sturmabteilung (SA) or Storm Troopers
the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) or Security Service
the Reich Cabinet
the Gestapo. -
Marie Claude Vaillant-Courturier Testifies about Auschwitz
Describes how people were selected to be gassed and experimented on -
Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus Incriminates Other Defendents
Incriminates Göring, Jodl, and Keitel -
Göring Testifies
Explains why Germany needed to expand
Annoys Jackson in cross-examination with rambling and side comments -
Rudolf Höss Testifies
Talks about sending people to death
Says he was just following orders, they were all taight not to question and do what they were told -
Prosecutors Make Final Statements
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Defendents Give Final Statements
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Judges Begin Deliberation
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IMT Gives 21 Verdicts
3 aquitted
6 sentenced to prison
12 sentenced to death -
Göring Commits Suicide
Swallos cyanide pill -
Hang 11 Nazi Criminals
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US Military Government in Germany Tries 23 Nazi Doctors
Military Tribunal I
Sentenced August 21, 1947
16 found guilty
7 executed
11 more Nuremberg trials tried by US alone -
Millitary Tribunal II-A Sentences criminals from Einsatzgruppen Trail
Sentences 23 criminals
14 memmbres of mobile killing squad sentenced to death -
Military Tribunal III-A sentences criminals from Justice Trial
sentences 10 officals of Reich Ministry and judges of People's and Special Courts -
Military Tribunal IV-A sentences 19 criminals from Ministries Trial
Ministries Trial- trial about 3 Reich Ministers and other High postioned Nazis
Appeals continue, but is main conclusion to trials -
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