The Nuremberg Trials
What role did the Nuremberg Trials have in closing World War II and what were the outcomes?
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Introduction
After a hard fought battle all throughout the continent of Europe, the time had come to place judgments and justice. In Nazi occupied Germany, Adolf Hitler used his power to annihilate the Jewish population, and anyone who tried to stop him. Concentration and extermination camps were set up in all different parts of Europe to aid the Nazis sinister plot. For each cruel act carried out, a punishment would soon be put into place. In Nuremberg, Germany, trials were enacted to indict the criminals of war at the close of World War II. These trials began November twentieth, 1945 and ended in 1949. The Nuremberg Trials set the precedent for how future criminals would be tried for future crimes. The location, principals in how to operate the trials, , and why the criminals were to be tried were debated among Russian, American, French, and British officials (International Military Tribunal). Hundreds of Nazi soldiers and high ranking officers went on punished at the trials. One Nazi official in particular, Adolf Hitler, never faced the Nuremberg courtroom. Hitler knowingly took his life instead of being punished for his systematically thought out crimes.