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 | | Despite their flaws and shortcomings, the Nuremberg trials were crucial in establishing the precedent that individual leaders and administrators, not only states, could be held accountable by the international community for actions that violated widely accepted, even universal, standards of conduct. |
 | | Finally, the trials are, in retrospect, a memorial to those who died on the streets, in the ghettos, and in the camps of the nations which had been their home for centuries. |
 | | The major significance of the Nuremberg Trials was the fact that the prosecution took the time and effort to hold them and to follow the formalities of a legitimate trial: lawyers for the accusation and lawyers for the accused. |
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