At first each country wanted a to have their own different way of punishing Nazi Germany after the war, for example the Soviet Union at the time, Joseph Stalin wanted to have an execution of more than 500,000 Nazi officials and those that had helped the Nazi in such inhumane acts, while Winston Churchill, the Great Britain Prime Minister only wanted the execution of the high ranking Nazi officials without any possibility of a trial whatsoever. ... The charter is known as London Charter of the International Military Tribunal. With other things in it, the Charter described three types of crim...

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The defendants included: Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers, and doctors. ... The most popular trial at Nuremberg was formally known as the International Military Tribunal, which was also the first, was held from November 20, 1945, to October 1, 1946. ... "The International Military Tribunal and the other twelve trials established legal principles and procedures that could serve as models for the future" (http://archive.adl.org). ...

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Due to the incredible size and power of the Nazi regime, thousands share in the blame for the virtual extermination of European Jewry, however certain high-ranking individuals played very direct roles in carrying out Hitler's "final solution". ... Also, while Eichmann in Jerusalem is based on Eichmann's trial testimony in Jerusalem, Sereny interviewed Stangl herself and made a point to speak with his wife, friends, and former military associates, allowing her to paint a much more intimate portrait of the man and his motivations. ...

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He had though heard stories of it from his Uncle Joe who served in the military. Finally in the fall of 1938, Andrew's father was abruptly called back to active duty in the military as Hitler slowly began to tear apart Czechoslovakia, leaving his wife to open a glass repair store until his return a few months later. ... Andrew's father was once again called to serve in the army, only this time mainly as a servant to Hungarian officers and lower-ranking officials. ...

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Germany was greatly affected by this because under the treaty, they were to follow some major changes financially, politically, militarily and territorially. ... Although he was successful in achieving his goals politically, economically, socially and militarily, his actions were not justified. ... He also made sure that the old members of the Communist Party before the 1917 and the high-ranking officials of the Red Army were executed to eliminate any threat to his power--Suppression of Opposition. ...

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Georing was presumably the most famous and high ranking of all the defendants tried at Nuremberg. ... He stated that he did help rearm Germany but that was hardly a crime because the allied military inspectors watched as we broke the treaty of Versailles. ...

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