^^^^^^ CB: The law purporting to have the authority to ignore habeas corpus.
The war on Iraq is fully fascist. It is a Crime Against Peace, the international law derived from the law under which Goering was convicted. Illegal aggressive war is the main crime the Nazis committed.
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Nuremberg Trials
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The Süddeutsche Zeitung announces "The Verdict in Nuremberg." Depicted are (left, from top): Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Frank, Frick; (second column) Funk, Streicher, Schacht; (third column) Doenitz, Raeder, Schirach; (right, from top) Sauckel, Jodl, Papen, Seyss-Inquart, Speer, Neurath, Fritsche, Bormann. Image from Topography of Terror Museum, Berlin.The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Germany, from 1945 to 1949, at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. The first and best known of these trials was the Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (IMT), which tried 24 of the most important captured leaders of Nazi Germany. It was held from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946. The second set of trials of lesser war criminals was conducted under Control Council Law No. 10 at the U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT), including the Doctors' Trial. This article primarily deals with the IMT; see the separate article on the NMT for details on those trials.
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The main trial
The indictments were for:
Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of crime against peace Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace War crimes Crimes against humanity The 24 accused were:
"I" indicted "G" indicted and found guilty "º" Not Charged
Name Count Sentence Notes
1 2 3 4
Martin Bormann I º G G Death Successor to Hess as Nazi Party Secretary. Sentenced to death in absentia, remains found in 1972.[1]
Karl Dönitz I G G º 10 years Leader of the Kriegsmarine from 1943, succeeded Raeder. Initiator of the U-boat campaign. Became President of Germany following Hitler's death[2]. In evidence presented at the trial of Karl Dönitz on his orders to the U-boat fleet to breach the London Rules, Admiral Chester Nimitz stated that unrestricted submarine warfare was carried on in the Pacific Ocean by the United States from the first day that nation entered the war. Dönitz was found guilty of breaching the 1936 Second London Naval Treaty, but his sentence was not assessed on the ground of his breaches of the international law of submarine warfare.[5]
Hans Frank I º G G Death Ruler of the General Government in occupied Poland. Expressed repentance[3]
Wilhelm Frick I G G G Death Hitler's Minister of the Interior. Authored the Nuremberg Race Laws.[4]
Hans Fritzsche I I I º Acquitted Popular radio commentator, and head of the news division of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry. Tried in place of Joseph Goebbels[5]
Walther Funk I G G G Life Imprisonment Hitler's Minister of Economics. Succeeded Schacht as head of the Reichsbank. Released due to ill health on May 16, 1957[6]
Hermann Göring G G G G Death Reichsmarschall, Commander of the Luftwaffe, and several departments of the SS. Committed suicide the night before his execution.[7]
Rudolf Hess G G I I Life Imprisonment Hitler's deputy, flew to Scotland in 1941 in attempt to broker peace with Great Britain. After trial, committed to Spandau Prison; died 1987.[8]
Alfred Jodl G G G G Death Wehrmacht Generaloberst, Keitel's subordinate. On February 28, 1953, Jodl was posthumously exonerated by a German de-Nazification court, which found him not guilty of crimes under international law. [9]
Ernst Kaltenbrunner I º G G Death Highest surviving SS-leader. Chief of RSHA, the central Nazi intelligence organ. Also, commanded many of the Einsatzgruppen and several concentration camps.[10]
Wilhelm Keitel G G G G Death Head of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW).[11]
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach I I I I ---- Major Nazi industrialist. Medically unfit for trial
Robert Ley I I I I ---- Head of DAF, The German Labour Front. Suicide on October 25, 1945, before the trial began
Konstantin von Neurath G G G G 15 years Minister of Foreign Affairs until 1938, succeeded by Ribbentrop. Later, Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. Resigned in 1943 due to dispute with Hitler. Released (ill health) November 6, 1954[12]
Franz von Papen I I º º Acquitted Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and Vice-Chancellor under Hitler from 1933. Later, ambassador to Turkey. Although acquitted at Nuremberg, von Papen was reclassified as a war criminal in 1947 by a German de-Nazification court, and sentenced to eight years' hard labour. He was acquitted following appeal after serving two years. [13]
Erich Raeder G G G º Life Imprisonment Leader of the Kriegsmarine until his retirement in 1943, succeeded by Dönitz. Released (ill health) September 26, 1955[14]
Joachim von Ribbentrop G G G G Death Nazi Minister of Foreign Affairs[15]
Alfred Rosenberg G G G G Death Racial theory ideologist. Later, Protector of the Eastern Occupied Territories.[16]
Fritz Sauckel I I G G Death Plenipotentiary of the Nazi slave labor program.[17]
Hjalmar Schacht I I º º Acquitted Pre-war president of the Reichsbank. Admitted to violating the Treaty of Versailles.[18]
Baldur von Schirach I º º G 20 years Head of the Hitlerjugend, later Gauleiter of Vienna. Expressed repentance[19] Arthur Seyss-Inquart I G G G Death Instrumental in the Anschluss. Later, Gauleiter of occupied Holland. Expressed repentance.[20]
Albert Speer I I G G 20 Years Hitler's favorite architect and personal friend. Responsible for several aspects of industry (esp. as Minister of Armaments) and a central figure in leadership. Expressed repentance.[21]
Julius Streicher I º º G Death Incited hatred and murder against the Jews through his weekly newspaper, Der Stürmer.[22]
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"I" indicted "G" indicted and found guilty "º" Not Charged
[edit] Influence on the development of international criminal law The Nuremberg trials had a great influence on the development of international criminal law. The International Law Commission, acting on the request of the United Nations General Assembly, produced in 1950 the report Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nürnberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal (Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1950, vol. III). The influence of the tribunal can also be seen in the proposals for a permanent international criminal court, and the drafting of international criminal codes, later prepared by the International Law Commission.
The Nuremberg trials initiated a movement for the prompt establishment of a permanent international criminal court, eventually leading over fifty years later to the adoption of the Statute of the International Criminal Court.
The Conclusions of the Nuremberg trials served to help draft: The Genocide Convention, 1948. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948. The Convention on the Abolition of the Statute of Limitations on War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, 1968. The Geneva Convention on the Laws and Customs of War, 1949; its supplementary protocols, 1977.
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