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  Nuremberg Trials - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nuremberg Trials were the trials of officials involved in World War II and the Holocaust during the Nazi regime.
The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Germany, from 1945 to 1949, at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
The Palace of Justice was spacious and largely undamaged (one of the few that had remained largely intact through extensive Allied bombing of Germany).
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Nuremberg Palace of Justice
Catherine Palace The Catherine palace is the summer palace of the Russia's Tsarina siege of Leningrad.
Palace of Whitehall The Palace of Whitehall was the main residence of the English Banqueting House was destroyed by fire...
Stockholm Palace The Stockholm Palace, or Stockholms slott, is the Helgeandsholmen.
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 Palace of Justice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the 1985 Palace of justice siege in Bogota, Colombia, see Palace of Justice siege.
Palace of Justice houses the Malaysian Court of Appeal and Federal Court, which moved to Putrajaya from the Sultan Abdul Samad Building in Kuala Lumpur in the early 2000s.
The Palace of Justice's design incorporates influences of Islamic culture like Taj Mahal in India, Moorish culture, like the Sultan Abdul Samad Building in Kuala Lumpur and Western culture, like Palladian.
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 Nuremberg Trials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two of trials of Nazis involved in World War II and the Holocaust.
The trials were held in the German city of Nuremberg (Nürnberg) from 1945 to 1949 at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice (the only court in Germany large to host the event that had not destroyed by Allied bombing).
The Nuremberg trials initiated a movement for prompt establishment of a permanent international criminal eventually leading over fifty years later to adoption of the Statute of the International Criminal Court.
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 Photo of Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany where war crimes trial was held   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
The Palace of Justice (Justizgebäude) at Fürtherstrasse 22, where the trial took place, is still being used as a courthouse; the building is shown in the photograph below.
The Palace of Justice had suffered some damage in the Allied bombing of Nürnberg, but it was restored by the forced labor of the conquered Germans before the trial began.
According to the book "Justice at Nuremberg" by Robert E. Conot, the idea for the common plan charges against the Nazis came from Lieutenant Colonel Murray C. Bernays, a Lithuanian Jew who had emigrated to American in 1900 at the age of six.
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 Nuremberg War Crime Trials - The International Military Tribunal
Neurath, Konstantin von, born in 1873 and a diplomat since 1908 was the Protector of Bohemia and Moravia from March, 1939 to 1943.
From November 20, 1945, until August 31, 1946, all sessions of the tribunal were held in Nuremberg under the presidency of Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence (later Baron Trevethin and Oaksey).
Those sentenced to death were executed in the early morning of October 16, 1946, in the old gymnasium of the Nuremberg prison, which in 1987 was torn down as part of a modernization project.
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 War's Crimes and Punishments, Then and Now
"Nuremberg was almost unique," said Lord Weidenfeld, the British publisher who took part in a panel debate today in Courtroom 600 that was the main event in Nuremberg's low-key commemoration of the trial.
Specifically, the so-called Nuremberg principles, which were never codified as international law, declared that government leaders were to be held accountable for breaches of international law and that no one could plead not guilty to war crimes by saying they were merely following orders.
For all its experience with Nazism's rise and fall, though, Nuremberg was not free from the passions and divisions that scoured Germany as the Berlin wall fell.
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 Nuremberg Trials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
The BBC is to recreate the Nuremberg trials for a three-part series to mark the event's 60th anniversary.
The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in World War II and the Holocaust.
The trials were held in the German city of Nuremberg (Nürnberg) from 1945 to 1949 at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice (the only court in Germany large enough to host the event that had not been destroyed by Allied bombing).
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 Nuremberg palace of justice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 60 Years Later, Nuremberg Legacy Lives On: From The Tampa Tribune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
NUREMBERG, GERMANY - -- In Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, a 62-year-old homeopathic healer is on trial in the death of a patient -- an ordinary case on an ordinary day in a Germany rebuilt from the wreckage of World War II as a free society built on humane law.
Nuremberg, in Bavaria, was the city where Adolf Hitler reviewed torchlight party rallies and promulgated the race laws of 1935 that paved the way for the Holocaust.
But the choice of the Palace of Justice for the trials was more prosaic: It was one of the few large buildings undamaged by Allied bombing.
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 60 YEARS AFTER NUREMBERG: How the Nazi Trials Helped Spawn Modern Justice
It was the "justice of the victors" the German governments argued -- and to this day they still have not recognized the judgment as legally binding.
In addition to charging and punishing the war of aggression as "greatest of all crimes," the prosecutors at Nuremberg also branded the terror of the war of extermination "a crime against humanity," the first time the phrase was used.
When the United States' chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson flew into Nuremberg for the first time, a few weeks before the trial was due to start, on the way to undertaking the most important task of his life, he found that the GIs had made themselves right at home in the Palace of Justice.
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 American RadioWorks: Justice on Trial, The Legacy of Nuremberg, Page 2
Nuremberg nestled in southern Germany, was painstakingly rebuilt after the second world war.
The Allied powers chose Nuremberg as the location of the trials for the city's symbolic importance to the Nazi rise to power, but also because it was one of the only courthouses in Germany that withstood the Allied air war.
Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz recently returned to courtroom 600 where he prosecuted one of the most shocking cases at Nuremberg.
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 NBC: Nuremberg trials still send a message - Europe - MSNBC.com
NUREMBERG, GERMANY — There is little physical evidence of the world-reverberating events that happened at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice 60 years ago.
For Germany, the Nuremberg trials marked the end of the darkest chapter of its history and the beginning of a long process in which the country struggled to come to terms with its Nazi past.
And it was a form of justice that has continued, for the Nuremberg Trials were a milestone in judicial history.
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NUREMBERG, Germany — American prosecutor Whitney R. Harris gazed at the top Nazis in front of him — men such as Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Julius Streicher — as their war crimes trial opened 60 years ago and knew his mission.
Later he would reflect on the significance of the landmark trial at Nuremberg: the establishment of charges such as "war crimes" in international law and the principle that individuals could be held responsible for their aggression.
Harris, now 93, returned Sunday with three witnesses to Courtroom 600 in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, where the trials were held, to mark the anniversary.
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 Cayman Islands - Cay Compass News Online - Germany marks Nuremberg trials
NUREMBERG, Germany (AP) – Nuremberg was marking the 60th anniversary Sunday of the postwar trial of some of Nazi Germany’s top leaders, a landmark process that ushered in a new era of international law.
In the oak–paneled Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice on Nov. 20, 1945, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and 18 other high–ranking Nazis pleaded innocent to a panel of judges representing the victorious allies – the United States, Soviet Union, Britain and France.
On Sunday, U.S. Nuremberg prosecutor Whitney R. Harris and other eyewitnesses to the proceedings were to return to the top–floor courtroom to talk about their experience and the legacy of the trials.
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Interior view of the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg.
The defendants in the dock at the Justice Case.
The Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, where the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals was held.
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 Medicine & Global Survival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
As an early and unequivocally clear elaboration of the ethical principles underlying the physician's approach to research on human studies, it has become the foundation for 20th century understanding of the doctrine of informed consent.
The presentations included new examinations of the role of the doctors during the historical period giving rise to the events of the Trial and extensive exploration of the influence this period has continued to exert over the conduct and philosophy of contemporary German medicine.
The new Nuremberg Code, embodying the noble principles of the first but extending its purview to issues of medical ethics and social justice that now represent our current frontiers of choice, will be launched for debate and signature throughout Germany.
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 Military Tribunal II Case 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
It is the essence of criminal justice that the offended community inquires into the offense involved.
In the fullest appreciation of the responsibilities devolving upon the Tribunal in this particular phase of the case, as in all phases, reference is made to the speech by Mr.
What Justice Jackson said at the beginning of that trial, the Tribunal says at the termination of the current trial.
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 Nuremberg, Germany
From November 20, 1945, until October 1, 1946, the International Military Tribunal convened in room 600 in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
Those sentenced to death were executed in the early morning of October 16, 1946, in the old gymnasium (no longer exists) of the Nuremberg prison, except for Goering who committed suicide by taking cyanide of potassium the night before his execution.
Luckily, I have a friend who lives in Nuremberg, who is German (Hi Pamela!), and who is fluent in English, so she interpreted everything for me. I was somewhat surprised that there were only a few people on tour.
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 Nuremberg Trials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
The trials were held in the German city of Nuremberg (Nürnberg) from 1945 to 1949 at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice (the only court in Germany large enough to host the event that hadnot been destroyed by Allied bombing).
All this did little to help the credibility of trials.But the spirit of the time was well reflected at Nuremberg - a long, brutal and extraordinarily costly war had been fought andthe surviving leaders of the losing side could not expect to simply walk away from the disaster they had created.
The Nuremberg trials initiated a movement for the prompt establishment of a permanent international criminal court, eventuallyleading over fifty years later to the adoption of the Statute of the International Criminal Court.
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 Alibris: Nuremberg
In August 1945 Great Britain, France, the USSR and the United States established a tribunal at Nuremberg to try military and civilian leaders of the Nazi regime for the plotting of aggressive warfare, the extermination of civilian populations, the widespread use of slave labor, the looting of occupied countries, and the maltreatment and murder of...
Sebastian Reinhardt, a young German-American, is yanked from routine army duty in America to serve as an interpreter at Nuremberg's Palace of Justice in 1945.
Using new sourcesQthe papers of the Nuremberg prison psychiatrist and commandant, the letters and journals of the prisoners, and accounts of the judges and prosecutorsQJoseph Persico retells the story of Nuremberg, combining sweeping history with psychological insight.
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 israelinsider: anti-Semitism: 60 years after Nuremberg trials, principles set there still holding strong
The proceedings in Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice -- still a working courtroom today -- went beyond punishing the Nazis, who killed 6 million Jews and several million others in their concentration camps.
"Nuremberg is considered to be the birthplace of a new international law," he said.
Nuremberg was the city where the Nazis held their annual party rallies -- the choreographed torchlight marches and fiery speeches recorded by filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl in 1934's "Triumph of the Will" -- and where Hitler's anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws paving the way for the Holocaust were announced in 1935.
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 RNW: Nuremberg – Law on Trial
Despite this outcome, critics of the Nuremberg process say it represents victor’s justice.  “These people were tried by those who won the war,” says Whitney Harris.
In his closing speech, Justice Robert Jackson pledged that those nations who were now judging would, in the future, agree to be judged by the same standards.
But 60 years after Nuremberg, the International Criminal Court is not able to prosecute the main crime prosecuted at Nuremberg; the waging of aggressive war.
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 NewsFromRussia.Com:Nuremberg marks 60th anniversary of trials of Nazis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
Later he would reflect on the significance of the landmark trial - the establishment of charges like "war crimes" in a new international law and the principle that individuals could be held responsible for their aggression.
On Nov. 20, 1945, it was justice that 33-year-old Harris sought for the 21 Nazis.
Harris, aged 93, returned Sunday with three other eyewitnesses to Courtroom 600 in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, where the trials were held to mark the anniversary.
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 Nuremberg trials left mark | www.azstarnet.com ®   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
The principal war-crimes defendants heard the verdict at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, on Sept. 30, 1946.
NUREMBERG, Nov. 20 (AP) - They were no longer glamour boys strutting across the European stage, these 20 Nazi leaders who filed today into the crowded Nuremberg courtroom.
NUREMBERG, Germany - In Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, a 62-year-old homeopathic healer is on trial for the death of a patient - an ordinary case on an ordinary day in a Germany rebuilt from the wreckage of World War II as a free society built on humane law.
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 NBC: Nuremberg trials still send a message - Europe - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
Today, sixty years after the war, the ghosts of the country's Nazi history are still kept alive in Nuremberg, which is located north of Munich in the south-central part of the country and for most Germans is better known for its picturesque Christmas market.
Thomas Langer / AP Courtroom 600 at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, the location of the International Tribunal against Nazi war criminals that started 60 years ago, on Nov. 20, 1945.
Nuremberg also was the site where Hitler's National Socialist Party choreographed numerous rallies with up to 50,000 participants at a gigantic parade field between 1933 and 1938.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7279844/did/10098223/page/2   (585 words)

  
 WAR CRIMES TRIALS
Justice Robert Jackson, the United States' chief prosecutor, gave the opening address.
After some very sharp debate, the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany was chosen as the site of the trials.
In the course of the trial it was Justice Jackson and the other prosecutors who emerged as the principal actors, along with the defendants.
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