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Nuremberg Trials: Tribunals
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While the Nuremberg trials were underway, and for some time afterwards, there was quite a lot of talk about the universal validity of the new legal code established there. A new age of international justice had begun, it was claimed. Many sincerely believed that the four Allied powers would themselves abide by the Tribunal's standards.
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The task for Nuremberg prosecutors would be two-part, Shawcross said. "The first is to demonstrate the nature and the basis of the crime against peace, which is constituted under the Charter of this Tribunal, by waging wars of aggression and in violation of treaties; and the second is to establish beyond all possibility of doubt that such wars were waged by these defendants." Download a compressed version.
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Because Japan consented to the jurisdiction of the IMT, the tribunal avoided the appeals to international law that the defendants at Nuremberg continually used. However, to this day, those convicted at the Tokyo trials are not, under Japanese law, regarded as criminals.
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