Nuremberg Trials: Facts and Details That Condemned the Nazi War Crimes

The genesis of the Nuremberg Trials can be traced to the growing Allied awareness during the war of the systematic nature of Nazi atrocities. As Allied forces advanced into Nazi-occupied territory in 1944 and 1945, they encountered evidence of crimes that defied comprehension: death camps designed for industrial-scale murder, medical experiments on human subjects, the systematic starvation of prisoners of war, and the deliberate targeting of civilian populations. The liberation of concentration camps like Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, and Auschwitz provided incontrovertible proof of genocide and created a moral imperative for accountability that transcended traditional notions of victor's justice.