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. ...

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In 1938 Adolf Hitler felt strong enough to risk his most serious gamble. In a kind of external coup he annexed Austria. With Austria open to the German military, the well prepared defensive positions of Czechoslovakia became obsolete - the southern border was now open to invasion. With this in mi...

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Three of the four allies wanted the Nazi leaders to be executed without a trial Winston Churchill said, They should be rounded up and shot like dog s but the Americans persuaded the other allies that a trial would be most beneficial from a public relations standpoint, so now with the allies agreed the stage for Nuremberg was set. ...

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