If during the Nuremberg trials, all Nazi criminals were to have been pursued at the expense of other considerations, chaos would have ensued.

This argument has been well known since the Nuremberg trials, which rejected charges of conspiracy to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity. Justice Stevens cited Telford Taylor, the chief prosecutor in Nuremberg, who made the same point about the oddity of conspiracy charges in international tribunals.

And Nuremberg above all else

Some South Africans called for Nuremberg type trials, especially for perpetrators of those atrocities that were designed to maintain the vicious apartheid system. There were demands that the guilty be brought to book.

We spent three months together in Nuremberg

Nuremberg. Trial of Wilhelm List (the Hostages trial).

The crime of aggression should be included as a crime punishable under the statute, and difficulties in defining that crime should be overcome with the aid of the experience gained since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials.

The Nuremberg trials, which followed Nazi Germany s unconditional surrender in World War II, provide an ideal model for post conflict justice. But, in conflicts in which no side has been defeated, the peacemaker s job becomes more challenging.

The judgments of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal handed down at the trials of Nazi German war criminals upheld international justice and safeguarded human dignity, reflecting the common aspiration of peace and justice loving people throughout the world.

The Nuremberg trials exposed the guilt of the Nazi leaders beyond doubt, if indeed any such doubt was left in people s minds. While these were important, however, Germany did not begin its arduous path away from zero hour with concern for the past.

The Holocaust was not the main issue at stake in the Nuremberg Trials. Nevertheless, the allies thought that the Nazi project of exterminating an entire people called for an entirely new legal approach, to ensure that such an atrocity would never happen again.

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The Nuremberg Trials and, in parallel, the creation of the United Nations and its Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signaled the growing importance of law in international relations. Sovereignty was no longer based solely on power, but increasingly on law and respect for the rights of citizens.

The next ITF meeting is scheduled for 28 February 2005 in Nuremberg (following BIOFACH).

(d) Trials

Eight trials involving 11 defendants were thus completed, leaving no pending trials.

The first meeting (Nuremberg, February 2003) established its terms of reference and initial work plan.

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C. Genocide trials

C. The Trials

5. Unfair trials

But... the trials.

The Nuremberg Trials of the German war criminals after World War II marked the first important change in the world s understanding of the concept of sovereignty. For the first time, an entire state leadership was put on trial for its crimes, as its representatives and henchmen were brought to justice.

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9. Trials in absentia

7. Trials in absentia

(a) Trials in progress

Such foot dragging exposes the ICTY s fundamental weakness unlike the Nuremberg tribunal, the international community convened it

As mentioned above, nine trials are currently in progress of which five are voluminous joint trials.

As mentioned above, ten trials are currently in progress of which five are voluminous joint trials.

Restoration of the Nuremberg archives was at no time considered to be a project subject to competitive bidding.

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The Trials of Asian Democracy

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B. Domestic war crimes trials

World War II came to an end, and Goering was captured, tried at Nuremberg and ultimately sentenced to death.

And there are many clinical trials.

Four trials are single accused cases.

These trials are at different stages.

Five cases are single accused trials.

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