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How were the Nazis put on trial at Nuremberg?

Trying the defeated in order to invent international justice, not simply to take revenge.

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From November 1945 to October 1946, the German city of Nuremberg, once the showcase of the Nazis, hosted a court with no precedent. The Allies were not content with having won the war. They put the losers on trial.

The trial established one simple, radical idea: even a powerful leader can answer for his acts in court. It also made crimes against humanity a category of international law.

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  1. 2Law instead of revenge
  2. 3Evidence facing the accused
  3. 4A verdict that still counts
  4. 5Real advances, and real limits
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