HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay [stop] the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason ____ Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson, November 21, 1945, Nuremberg 29. The speaker maintains that the guiding principle of the trial will be the
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payment of reparations
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denial of responsibility
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celebration of victory
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judgment of the law
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The international military tribunal was set up at nuremberg in 1945, six and a half month after the 2nd world war to conduct trials on the nazis for their inhuman acts. these were considered as crimes against humanity and tried in a court where all the allied powers had representation.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the Nuremberg Trials, Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Jodl, and other defendants unsuccessfully used the defense. They contended that while they knew Hitler’s orders were unlawful, or at least had reason to believe they were unlawful, their place was not to question, but to obey.
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