The field of transitional justice was practically nonexistent prior to the end of the Second World War. Mass atrocities had taken place on the world stage with almost no consequences being brought upon the perpetrators, and more importantly the orchestrators or those "most responsible" for these crimes. This would all change after the crimes of the Nazis being brought to light during/after WWII. There was a paradigm shift in the international community in regards to justice being brought upon those who commit these crimes and the common thought or feeling that this could "never again" happen was rampant. This of course would be the main response and fuel to bring about the military tribunals of Nuremberg and punish those most responsible for the atrocities that took place. .
The overarching theme thereafter would be that of justice and accountability to be placed on the perpetrators of these mass atrocities. Nuremberg would prove to be the catalyst that was needed to make transitional justice a more permanent and prominent staple of modern society. It would lead to the creation of institutions such as the ICC and pave the way for many NGOs that would lead the charge in humanitarian intervention in order to bring peace and sustainability to conflicting societies. .
The Rise of the Third Reich .
With the end of the First World War Germany was left in shambles both physically and economically. Practically the entire country had been destroyed in the war by the allied forces and rebuilding was highly hindered by the strict sanctions that were put in place on Germany following the war. For example: Part of the sanctions placed on Germany were that of military sanctions. They could only have a "Small standing army (against insurrection, and for routine border patrol; economic commitment under 1% of the nation's gross national product). (Carroll, 1966, 114) These sanctions would be in indirect cause for what would lead to the Nazi party taking power in the early 1930s.
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As the war achieved its end in 1945, the Allies had gotten to be mindful of shocking monstrosities that had occurred in Eastern Europe. ... They came to the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials. The Nuremberg Tribulations were a progression of thirteen tribulations that occurred in Nuremberg, Germany somewhere around 1945 and 1949. ... Some also believe that the Nuremberg Trials were more about seeking revenge rather than justice. ... The Nuremberg Trials not only had a long-lasting effect on international law but also on human lives....
Thus the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal was created. ... It is a shame, however, that the model for dispensing world justice was as imperfect as the Nuremberg Trials were. ... The indicted Nazis of the Nuremberg trials were charged with one or all of these specific crimes. ... At the end of the trial, only Von Pappen of the aforementioned five defendants was acquitted; the rest were condemned to death. ... The question of bias has also often been brought up in regard to Nuremberg and beyond Nuremberg to any trial of war criminals where the victors are the judges. ...
Although human experiments have been conducted for research purposes over the years, the development of HeLa cells and the Nuremberg Code have changed the way research is now conducted. ... -led war tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, had sentenced seven Nazi doctors to death because of the fact that they were doing disagreeable research on Jews without consent. Consequently, this led to the Nuremberg Code which made the voluntary consent of the human subject absolutely essential. ... " Patient rights are still a problem today, even though The Nuremberg Code and other Bills have been made....
In addition to convicting and punishing guilty defendants, the Nuremberg Doctor's Trial created a set of guidelines for legal and just human medical research. ... ("Online") These laws became known as the Nuremberg Code. ... This code has become the basic legal and ethical guide for medical experimentation on humans ("Nuremberg"). The Nuremberg Doctors trial seemed to some to be a brutal and unfair event. ... Nuremberg helped the world see and remember those who died due to the sick and twisted experiments of the educated doctors. ...
The ICC is a landmark in the historical evolution from a culture of impunity to a more mature age of accountability. ... In particular, the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and for Rwanda (ICTR)-established by the Security Council as Chapter VII enforcement measures-served as laboratories within which abstract, post-Nuremberg conceptions of justice took shape and became reality. The indictment of sitting heads of state, such as Slobodan Milosevic, became a defining moment for the rule of law in its most stark sense, embodying the proposition-captured in the Nur...
In the next ten years the policies had increasingly grown repressive and violent, that by the end of the First World War the estimates of the German/European Jews who were murdered was way over Six Million of them and also this along with approximately 4 Million non-Jews. ... By the end of 1942, the Allied Powers during the 2nd World War, consisting of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, France and the United States of America had signed a declaration, after they saw that they could win the war. ... The Nuremberg Trials were divided into several smaller trials. ... The trials were still held at t...
Firstly, the Jews of Germany were subjected to a series of discriminatory laws, including the Nuremberg Laws introduced in 1935, in which the Nazi revoke Reich citizenship for Jews and prohibit Jews from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of German. ... To prevent something like this – the horrendous experiences of the holocaust – from ever happening again, the International Community, through the United Nations, composed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a "fight to deliver human rights". ... Firstly, the Jews of Germany were subjected to a serie...
The Nuremberg Trials The Nuremberg trial was built up to be the trial of the century. ... Three of the four allies wanted the Nazi leaders to be executed without a trial Winston Churchill said, They should be rounded up and shot like dog s but the Americans persuaded the other allies that a trial would be most beneficial from a public relations standpoint, so now with the allies agreed the stage for Nuremberg was set. ... Georing was presumably the most famous and high ranking of all the defendants tried at Nuremberg. ... He took responsibility for his part in the crimes including slave la...
