(JTA) — At the opening of his trial in Nuremberg, Julius Streicher made several uncharacteristically friendly statements about Jews — a people he had devoted his professional life to demonize.

Twenty-two of the indicted men eventually sat in the dock in the Nuremberg courtroom. Three of the defendants escaped trial: industrialist Gustav Krupp, who was too frail; Hitler's private ...

In 2003 the movement that the Nuremberg trial had sparked succeeded in establishing a permanent International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) at The Hague, a city in the Netherlands.

NUREMBERG, Nov. 20, 1945 (UP) - Twenty leaders of the Nazi regime went on trial before a United Nations tribunal today and listened to an indictment holding them responsible for World War II.

The Nuremberg War Trial has a strong claim to be considered the most significant as well as the most debatable event since the conclusion of hostilities. To those who support the trial it promises ...

A trial always ends abruptly – the verdict may be eagerly awaited but once delivered there is nothing left for the lawyers or judges to do. In the case of the Nuremberg war crime trials after ...

Ben Ferencz, age 98, is the last surviving Nuremberg trial prosecutor and he is on a life-long crusade in the fight for law not war. After the Holocaust camps were liberated, Ferencz became a lead ...

And while the trials themselves have been adapted to film before - notably in Stanley Kramer's 1961 epic Judgment at ...

So, as I sat trying to distil the gargantuan, 18-month process of the Nuremberg Trial, from first proposal to verdict, I knew some characters would need to be wholly invented. Just as Emily Watson ...

Still, the case has already made legal history. “It’s the first time since the Nuremberg trials that senior executives of a large, listed company are in the dock for war crimes,” said Wesselink.

TASS/. Attempts to undermine the principles based on the conclusions of the Nuremberg trials threaten global security, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his address to the participants of ...