What was the Aftermath of the Nuremberg Trials?
Post Nuremberg Trials and the subsequent additional trials have brought international law, humanity and the allied powers together to a milestone precedent for dealing with genocide crimes and other crimes against humanity. Throughout the remainder of the 1940’s and into the 1990’s, the landmark Nuremberg Trials had a profound effect preserving international law. The Nuremberg results led to the United Nations Genocide Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In addition, the Geneva Convention on the Laws and Customs of War was settled from the impact of the Second World War. The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties and three protocols for standards of international laws for the humanitarian treatment of war. Other countries took notice and the international law assisted for the trials of Japanese war criminals in Tokyo. Finally, in 1961, the international precedent aided with the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, and the war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda. The aftermath of the Nuremberg Trials has left a forever impression in history recognizing the aggressive hostilities of war crimes and enforcing the impactful world law against inhumane crimes.