Nuremberg Trials Holocaust
The atrocious ordeals the Jewish people faced by Hitler’s anti-semitic Nazis including the mass genocide of over six million jews from 1941-1945, is known today as the Holocaust. Because of this, harsh ghettos and cruel concentration camps became the home to Jews and other individuals during the time of World War ll, and they were later liberated after the surrender of Germany. Justice has not been served for Jews and other victims of the Holocaust due to the results of the decisions for the consequences for the axis powers including the results of the Nuremberg Trials and the postwar life of Holocaust victims. The events that occurred post-war exhibited the difference between freedom and justification, and by comparing the adversities of the
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The Nuremberg Trials were a series of war trials against the Nazis for their crimes committed during the war. In reference to the article provided, only twenty-two war criminals were tried, to begin with, and after only fifteen were given serious punishments on the count of their respective charges, twelve given the death sentence, and three lifelong sentences in prison. The other seven were either acquitted or given ten to twenty years in prison. The results and the consequences of these trials do not nearly equate to the six million deaths of Jews and other victims in the Holocaust. Although these trials showed the power of obeying judicial laws in worldly events, hundreds of thousands of perpetrators got away with crimes, and this in no way fully shows justification for the Jewish …show more content…
According to another section of the given article, mostly Jews were the ones that felt out of place in homeless in post-war Europe. They still lived in fear of hatred and had little of the basic necessities needed for living. Germany paid the sum of $845 million to be distributed amongst all of the Holocaust survivors, meaning most Jewish families were paid a couple thousand dollars. It is impossible to purchase all of the things needed to start a new life including a home, food, clothes, and water, this task is especially difficult for larger families. It was in no way fair for Jews to continue having to live in fear and to be expected to have to start a new life in the world with only a few thousands of
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of war trials against the Nazis for their crimes committed during the war. In reference to the article provided, only twenty-two war criminals were tried, to begin with, and after only fifteen were given serious punishments on the count of their respective charges, twelve given the death sentence, and three lifelong sentences in prison. The other seven were either acquitted or given ten to twenty years in prison. The results and the consequences of these trials do not nearly equate to the six million deaths of Jews and other victims in the Holocaust. Although these trials showed the power of obeying judicial laws in worldly events, hundreds of thousands of perpetrators got away with crimes, and this in no way fully shows justification for the Jewish …show more content…
According to another section of the given article, mostly Jews were the ones that felt out of place in homeless in post-war Europe. They still lived in fear of hatred and had little of the basic necessities needed for living. Germany paid the sum of $845 million to be distributed amongst all of the Holocaust survivors, meaning most Jewish families were paid a couple thousand dollars. It is impossible to purchase all of the things needed to start a new life including a home, food, clothes, and water, this task is especially difficult for larger families. It was in no way fair for Jews to continue having to live in fear and to be expected to have to start a new life in the world with only a few thousands of