Justice After The Holocaust

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Imagine being tried for actions that have been ingrained in one's mind their whole lives as the correct thing to do? This is what many young Nazi soldiers went through during the Nuremberg Trials. After World War Two, all of the allied countries came up with the idea to organize a trial to make consequences for the Nazis inhumane actions. During this trial many new laws were publicied to prevent people from comitting acts of genocide without consequences. The high ranking Nazi commanders were brought to trial. However, many were not present because they either escaped or committed suicide. Although many evil people were convicted, this trial set up the knowledge that these genocides would not go unnoticed. As a result, many new laws that were …show more content…
The first future change is shown in the article Justice After the Holocaust when the article says, “I think the most important legacy of the Holocaust is the state that international law is in today. It wouldn’t have been, but for the Nuremberg trials. There wasn’t such a thing as genocide. Nobody conceived of a crime of that nature. There wasn’t such a thing as “crimes against humanity.” That wasn’t the first time the expression had been used, but it was the first time it had been given legal meaning and content.” (Justice). This shows how unknown these actions were to the world and how before these events happened nobody ever thought of something like this occurring. Today the Nuremberg Trials only help with the actions taken after a genocide has ended, but this could change in the future and is shown in the article Justice After the Holocaust which states, “Our challenge in the twenty-first century is to create institutions and tools that allow us to stop crimes against humanity while they occur and to nurture a global responsibility of caring that has the power to protect vulnerable children, women, and men so that they do not become victims of genocide.”(Justice). This shows that the ways of combating acts of crimes against humanity are still being thought of. The Nuremberg trial was only the first step to the bigger …show more content…
This is shown in the article Justice After the Holocaust which says, “As these leaders surfaced, new trials were held, and continue to be held (although they are rare these days because most Nazis who could be charged with war crimes have passed away or have already been caught)” (Justice). This shows that even if the Nazis escape, they will continue to be hunted and tried in court if they are found. A post trial case is mentioned in the article Justice After the Holocaust when the article states, “The most famous of the post-Nuremberg trials was that of Adolf Eichmann, the chief organizer of the “Final Solution”.” (Justice) This is one of the cases where a Nazi was later found and tried in court for his actions during World War 2. The fact that the people responsible will be tried in court, even after so many years, shows that the hunt for the people responsible of The Holocaust will continue until all of them are sentenced to jail or
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