Germany Marks 75th Anniversary of Landmark Nuremberg Trials, WW2

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- Nov. 21, 1945 file photo, Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering stands in the prisoner's dock at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial in Germany. He is entering a plea of not guilty to the International Military Tribunal Indictment. Goering is wearing headphones of the court translating system. Germany marks the 75th anniversary of the landmark Nuremberg trials of several Nazi leaders and in what is now seen as the birthplace of a new era of international law on Friday, Nov. 20, 2020.

AP News, Nov. 19, 2020.

BERLIN (AP) — Seventy-five years ago, the dock of Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice was packed with some of the most nefarious figures of the 20th Century: Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and 18 other high-ranking Nazis.

They weren’t yet known as war criminals — it was a charge that didn’t exist until the Nuremberg trials began on Nov. 20, 1945, in what is now seen as the birthplace of a new era of international law.

The proceedings broke new ground in holding government leaders individually responsible for their aggression and slaughter of millions of innocents. In addition to establishing the offense of war crimes, it also produced the charges of crimes against peace, waging a war of aggression, and crimes against humanity, whose legacies live on in the International Criminal Court of today.

Nuremberg was the city where Adolf Hitler reviewed torchlight Nazi party rallies and promulgated the race laws of 1935 that paved the way for the Holocaust.

Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s famous propaganda movie “Triumph of the Will,” with its sweeping aerial photography and other pioneering techniques, brought the 1934 Nuremberg Nazi Party Congress to the world, with footage of top officials speaking to massive crowds of followers at the Bavarian city’s Luitpold Arena and the sweeping Zeppelin Field. The Congress Hall begun by the Nazis near the parade grounds was never finished, and today houses a documentation center about Nuremberg’s history during the Nazi era.

The choice to use the city’s Palace of Justice for the trials was less symbolic than pragmatic, as it was one of the few large buildings left undamaged by Allied bombing during the war. The testimony of hundreds of witnesses was heard over 218 trial days. One of them was Rudolf Hoess, the Auschwitz death camp commandant, who “reacted to the order to slaughter human beings as he would have to an order to fell trees,” wrote U.S. prosecutor Whitney R. Harris...

https://apnews.com/article/nuremberg-war-crimes-trials-coronavirus-pandemic-berlin-9c0c0c7c092ea429b0daf8c3106cdce5
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- 'How 100-year-old Ben Ferencz spent a lifetime making legal history,' DW, Nov. 18, 2020. After securing evidence of Nazi atrocities in concentration camps and serving as the youngest prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials, the US lawyer helped found the ICC in the Hague...
https://www.dw.com/en/how-100-year-old-ben-ferencz-spent-a-lifetime-making-legal-history/a-55649169

[bronxiteforever]

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There is so much that Trump imitates from the Nazis playbook relating to the intentional destruction of the fragile institutions of a representative democracy.

[appalachiablue]

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A new, aggressive democracy defense effort here and in other endangered areas is needed.

[bronxiteforever]

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[dalton99a]

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[2naSalit]

4. One of the first things that needs to happen on day 1...

US join the ICC and if we don't hold these fuckers accountable, the ICC can go after them for their crimes against humanity.