The Nuremberg Trials were to many a sign of the world healing after the Second World War. The trials initiated a model of what further international enforcement of justice might be patterned like. To many, the trials indicated that transgression against basic, human values would no longer be tolerated by the world. A process would now be in place to hold people accountable for crimes against humanity. The first international war-crimes trials began in November 1945 …
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…of the war. Regardless of the Nazis horrific nature, they said it set a bad precedent to invent a legal basis for prosecution solely to achieve vengeance, the critics commented. However, supporters said that the Allies had a moral right to punish the Nazi leaders. Like the supporters, Judge Charles Wyzanski said the exemplary manner in which the trials had been conducted had dispelled his skepticism about the feasibility of forging and international legal system.