![]() ![]() ![]() “The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated,” Jackson said in his opening address, which was now preserved on film. Jackson, an architect of the Nuremberg trials. ![]() The commitment to legal process as an antidote to Nazi barbarism was a passion of U.S. ![]() Some were sentenced to prison, and others, such as Herman Göring, Hitler’s designated successor in the early years of the war, were sentenced to death. The Nazi defendants, despite their horrific crimes and their role in fomenting the war that had just concluded, were granted the right to defend themselves in a public court. The trials marked a milestone for international law, setting a precedent for international criminal prosecution that we struggle to live up to even today. In October 1945, in the ruins of Nuremberg, Germany, the victorious Allied nations convened the first in a series of groundbreaking legal proceedings. Poster for the Berlin run of Nuremberg, which was delayed until May 1949 because of the Soviet Blockade. ![]()
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