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Nuremberg Trials
The trials of 1945-46 establish that individuals, including leaders, can be held criminally responsible under international law.
Open in the interactive tree →The International Military Tribunal tried leading figures of Nazi Germany for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Its principles fed into the Genocide Convention (1948), the tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda and the International Criminal Court (2002).
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- Human Rights (1948)1948The Declaration followed the Nuremberg principles and the shock of the Holocaust