"I've seen what wasn't ever meant for human eyes to see."
-Anonymous GI
-Anonymous GI
Thesis
Nazis perpetrated Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, physically handicapped, and the mentally disabled during the 1930's. The Nazis violated three current crimes which were crimes of conspiracy, crimes against peace, and war crimes. Laws still needed to be developed which compelled the need to compose a new category of law: crimes against humanity. The Nuremberg Trials proceeding WWII were made to punish the individuals that were responsible for these atrocities that changed the world. A very important set of principles came about in these trials with seven sections and all had the same idea. These seven articles all strengthened this idea by blocking all the possible exits left open. This principle, "The Nuremberg Principles" stated that nobody (including the heads of state and other government officials) were not above the law. They too would have to obey and listen to the laws that were instituted in the land. This set of international trials created laws that would prevent similar events like the Holocaust from ever happening again and led to other conventions that would assist with these laws.
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