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Nuremberg Trials: United States
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The International Law Commission of the United Nations ... adopted the Nuremberg principles in 1950. The International Law Commission was directed by the General Assembly under the resolution 177 (II) (a) to “formulate the principles of international law recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the judgment of the Tribunal.” The United Nations General Assembly had already unanimously affirmed and recognized these principles of international law that had been recognized by the Charter of Nuremberg Tribunal and the judgment of the Tribunal. As the Nuremberg Principles had been affirmed by the General Assembly, the International Law Commission adopted them. The text of the Nuremberg Principles is:
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By far the most important of these was the great Nuremberg trial of 1945-1946, officially known as the International Military Tribunal (IMT). The governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France put on trial the most prominent surviving German leaders as "Major War Criminals" for various "war crimes," "crimes against peace," and "crimes against humanity." In the words of the Tribunal's Charter, these "Nazi conspirators" carried out their crimes as part of a great "Common Plan or Conspiracy."
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