The role of the Nuremberg Trials in the development of international criminal justice
This article analyzes the desire of the countries of the Anti-Hitler Coalition to punish Nazi Germany and its leaders for war crimes. A colossal preparatory work was carried out, several international agreements were implemented in the course and conduct of this international trial, thousands of witnesses were heard directly, kilometers of newsreels were viewed both by the prosecution and by the defense. For the first time in the dock for war crimes there was a whole criminal state, as well as its institutions of power.