Nuremberg trials

origins

• a precedent for trying those of war crimes had
• Add another  set at the end of world war on in the leipzig item here
• war crimes trails held in may to july 1921 the
• reichsgericht in leipzig although these had been
• on a very limited scale and largely regarded as ineffectual at the beginning of 1940

postwar justice

• The military Tribunal was a court convened
• jointly by the victorious allied governments
• here Soviet,British,American,and French flags
• hang beheind th judges bench 
• nd behind the judges'

postwar trials

• Between 1946 and 1948, British military courts tried members of the Ravens-
• bruck concentration camp staff, including SS authorities, camp guards, and
• some prisoner functionaries. During this period, the British military 
• courts found 10 SS aurhorities and camp functionaries