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Nuremberg Trials: United States
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The story of six million Jews exterminated during the war was given final authority at the Nuremberg Trials by the statement of Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl. He had been an assistant of Eichmann's, but was in fact a rather strange person in the service of American Intelligence who had written several books under the pseudonym of Walter Hagen. Hoettl ... worked for Soviet espionage, collaborating with two Jewish emigrants from Vienna, Perger and Verber, who acted as U.S. officers during the preliminary inquiries of the Nuremberg Trials. It is remarkable that the testimony of this highly dubious person Hoettl is said to constitute the only "proof' regarding the murder of six million Jews. In his affidavit of November 26th, 1945 he stated, not that he knew but that Eichmann had "told him" in August 1944 in Budapest that a total of 6 million Jews had been exterminated. Needless to say, Eichmann never corroborated this claim at his trial.
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The trials at Nuremberg did not end with Jackson's International Military Tribunal. There were 12 subsequent trials conducted by United States military courts in Nuremberg. For an overview of the subsequent trials, visit the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School website here.
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Following World War II, for example, the Allies prosecuted a number of leading Nazi officials at the Nuremberg trials for crimes against peace. During the war, the Nazis had invaded and occupied a series of sovereign states, including France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Austria. Because those invasions were made in an effort to accumulate wealth, power, and territory for the Third Reich, Nazi officials could not claim to be acting in self-defense. Thus, those officials who participated in the planning, initiation, or execution of those invasions were guilty of crimes against peace.
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These include international courts such as Nuremberg and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. These courts transcend domestic jurisdiction, claiming that the crimes committed in the particular state are “crimes against humanity,” not just local crimes. These courts ... are used when a country cannot or will not prosecute the accused. This notion of ability and willingness is also the motivation behind the new International Criminal Court, a court of last resort, designed to address major human rights abuses when a country cannot or will not prosecute on their own. There are also domestic prosecutorial efforts that may come in the form of civil or criminal trials.
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The first stage of the project presents most of the documents from and relating to Case 1 of the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals trials. Known as the Medical Case or the Doctors' Trial, Case 1 was held in 1946-1947 and involved 23 defendants accused of organizing and participating in war crimes and crimes against humanity in the form of harmful or fatal medical experiments and procedures inflicted on both civilians and prisoners of war.
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From this mountain of paper, US military personnel alone selected some two thousand documents considered most incriminating for use in the main Nuremberg trial. The tons of confiscated records were later shipped to the United States. It is estimated that in the US National Archives alone, more than one million pages of documents on the Third Reich's Jewish policy are on file. Many hundreds of these Nuremberg documents have since been published, most notably by the U.S. government in the 42-volume "blue series" record of the main Nuremberg trial, the 15-volume "green series" record of the "second string" Nuremberg trials, and in the 11-volume "red series." (note 36)
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