Nuremberg Trials and Nazi Leaders - Bailey401
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Nazi Leaders and the Nuremburg Trials
Research the following Nazi leaders involved in the Nuremburg Trials and respond to the questions. Use the following website to access information:
|Name |Picture |Quote |Who was he? |Outcome |
| |[pic] |“We had orders to obey the head of state. We weren't a | | |
| | |band of criminals meeting in the woods in the dead of | |Count 1: |
|Hermann | |night to plan mass murders...The four real conspirators | | |
|Goering | |are missing: The Fuhrer, Himmler, Bormann, and | |Count 2: |
| | |Goebbels." (1/5/46)..."This is a political trial by the | | |
| | |victors and it will be a good thing when Germany realizes| |Count 3: |
| | |that..." (6/13/46) | | |
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| | |“Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a | |Count 1: |
|Martin | |struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore | | |
|Bormann | |extremely harsh” | |Count 2: |
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| | |“Every educated person is a future enemy” | |Count 3: |
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| | |“I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am | |Count 1: |
| | |sorry my people were led this time by men who were not | | |
|Ernst Kaltenbrunner | |soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I have | |Count 2: |
| | |no knowledge.” | | |
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|Name |Picture |Quote | What was his role? |Outcome |
| |[pic] |"It is just incomprehensible how those things | |Count 1: |
| | |[atrocities] came about...Every genius has the demon in | | |
|Rudolf | |him. You can't blame him [Hitler]--it is just in | |Count 2: |
|Hess | |him...It is all very tragic. But at least I have the | | |
| | |satisfaction of knowing that I tried to do something to | |Count 3: |
| | |end the war." (12/16/45) | | |
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| | |"It is not the task of a soldier to be the judge of his | | |
|Alfred | |Commander in Chief. May history or the Almighty do that."| |Count 2: |
|Jodl | | | | |
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| | |“The German people is not marked by original sin, but by | |Count 1: |
| | |original nobility.” | | |
|Alfred Rosenberg | | | |Count 2: |
| | |“Racial history is therefore natural history and the | | |
| | |mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the | |Count 3: |
| | |history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the | | |
| | |great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, | |Count 4: |
| | |their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.” | | |
| |[pic] |“The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved | |Count 1: |
| | |when the whole world is free of Jews.” | | |
|Julius Streicher | | | |Count 2: |
| | |“The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he | | |
| | |be exterminated root and branch.” | |Count 3: |
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| |[pic] |"Don't let anybody tell you that they had no idea. | |Count 1: |
| | |Everybody sensed there was something horribly wrong with | | |
|Hans | |the system." (11/29/45) "Hitler has disgraced Germany for| |Count 2: |
|Frank | |all time! He betrayed and disgraced the people that | | |
| | |loved him!...I will be the first to admit my guilt." | |Count 3: |
| | |(4/17/46) | | |
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Nuremberg Trials
|Indictment Count 1 |Indictment Count 2 |Indictment Count 3 |Indictment Count 4 |
|Conspiracy to Wage Aggressive War |Waging Aggressive War, or "Crimes Against Peace" |War Crimes |Crimes Against Humanity |
| |Including “the planning, preparation, initiation, and|These were the more “traditional” violations of the |This count involved the actions in concentration |
|This count helped address the crimes committed before|waging of wars of aggression, which were also wars in|law of war including treatment of prisoners of war, |camps and other death rampages. |
|the war began, showing a plan to commit crimes during|violation of international treaties, agreements, and |slave labor, and use of outlawed weapons. | |
|the war. |assurances.” | | |
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The Nuremberg Trials were the sets of trials of officials involved in World War II and the Holocaust during the Nazi regime. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Germany, from 1945 to 1949, at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
Why Nuremberg?
• It was located in the American sector (at this time, Germany was divided into four sectors).
• The Palace of Justice was spacious and largely undamaged (one of the few that had remained largely intact through extensive Allied bombing of Germany). A large prison was also part of the complex.
• Because Nuremberg had been appointed "City of the party rallies", there was symbolic value in making it the place of the Nazi party's demise.
Trial of the Major War Criminals (24)
Death by Hanging: 12 Life in Prison: 3 Prison (10-20 years): 6 Acquitted: 3
What was the significance of Nuremberg Trials? Discuss in a paragraph…(5-7 sentences)
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