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  • Essay / The Nuremberg Trials Rewritten - 869

    How does a human judge another human for a crime that could very well have been committed by the person judging the condemned person if they had been in their place? No one really understands what's going on in someone else's head. It is for this reason alone that judging one another is wrong. “The year that World War II finally ended, a courtroom in Nuremberg, Germany, became the scene of what would be called the world's greatest trials” (www.pbs.org) ". When the Nuremberg Trials began, the Nazis were judged on the role they played during Hitler's reign. But instead of German and Jewish citizens judging the Nazis, it is Americans. The main discussion on the topic is whether they are really guilty or not. If people had looked at the additional evidence, they would know that not all of them were as guilty as they were made out to be. During the trials, none of them escaped the death penalty or life imprisonment, but why did the things some of them were convicted of have nothing to do with the deaths of the Jews. For example, “Frick was hanged for having “Germanized” the inhabitants of Posen, Danzig, West Prussia, Malvasia, Sudetenland, Memelland and Austria. With the exception of Austria, these were former parts of the Prussian Reich, separated from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles (porter16). What's wrong with spreading German customs to other countries when other countries have done the same thing? If we are blind enough to forget the white man's burden and how other countries were so eager to change the indigenous people of Africa, then why is it such a threat that Frick tried to do the same thing? The other thing to take into account is that all the countries he was trying to Germanize the origin...... middle of paper ......p://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects /ftrials/nuremberg /alstoetter.htm>."Nuremberg War Trials: The Affairs of the Ministries (the Affairs of the Nazi Judges)." Nuremberg war trials: the affairs of the ministries (the affairs of the Nazi judges). Np, and Web. April 9, 2014. “Nazi Defendants in the Great Nuremberg War Crimes Trial.” Nazi defendants in the major war crimes trial at Nuremberg. Np, and Web. April 7, 2014. “Transcript.” PBS. PBS and Web. April 9, 2014. “What happened to Ernst Janning after the Nuremberg Trials?” » Wiki Answers. Answers Corporation, and Web. April 9. 2014. .