The crimes committed by the Germans during and before World War II were some of the worst crimes against humans that the world has seen. The Nuremberg Trials of November 1945 to October 1946 were documentations of the crimes the Nazis had committed such as the Holocaust. They were also the first war crimes trials conducted by the winners of a war. There were a total of twenty-one defendants. Included in these was Hermann Goering (Shaver, 1). This …
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…year (Tusa, 483) As one can see, Hermann Goering was a very important person in the Nazi party, but he paid the price for his actions. Most people have heard about the Holocaust, but if they were asked about the Nuremberg trials they probably would not know anything about it. Hopefully you now know that justice, at some level, was served. The world should not forget what went on so the same mistake is not made.