Ben FerenczBen FerenczOccupationLawyerKnown forProsecutor at the Nuremberg trialsSpouse(s)Gertrude Fried ( m. 1946; died 2019)Children412 more rows
The main judges at the Nuremberg Trial, as appointed by the Four Powers, were Francis Biddle (United States of America), Professor Henri Donnedieu de Vabres (France); Major General Iona Nikitchenko (Soviet Union) and Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence (United Kingdom). Lawrence was elected President of the Tribunal.
The chief prosecutors for the trial of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg came from four nations. They were: Robert H. Jackson for the United States; Hartley Shawcross for the United Kingdom; General R. A. Rudenko for the Soviet Union; and François de Menthon and Auguste Champetier de Ribes for France.
This time, however, Germany was completely occupied and was unable to resist, so the trials went ahead. Flawed or not, the Nuremberg tribunal could not have met a more deserving collection of defendants – and it gave them a largely fair trial.
Set in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1948, the film depicts a fictionalized version of the Judges' Trial of 1947, one of the 12 U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunals conducted before the U.S. military.
Rothaug's role in the Katzenburger trial was inspiration for the plot surrounding the fictional characters Ernst Janning and Irene Hoffman Wallner in the 1961 film Judgment at Nuremberg.
The indictment lodged against them contained four counts: (1) crimes against peace (i.e., the planning, initiating, and waging of wars of aggression in violation of international treaties and agreements), (2) crimes against humanity (i.e., exterminations, deportations, and genocide), (3) war crimes (i.e., violations of ...
Because of the unprecedented nature of the Holocaust and the Nazi regime, international law as it existed at the time did not suffice to prosecute those indicted, “so the Allies fudged a new law and applied it ex post facto.” Those laws prohibited what became known as “crimes against humanity.” At the time, some legal ...
The most common reason for claiming that deterrence failed is the large number of wars and conflicts seen all over the world in the 67 years since Nuremberg. Yet, this seems a rather harsh benchmark by which to judge Nuremberg. Curing the world of all conflict was an impossible task for the IMT.