within. that class of new students i don't think you can consider the holocaust in terms of classical justice at all. that's in the end there's no forgiving what happened kind of rescue saying this. but at least the perpetrators could be tried in court how do the victims and the children of the war criminals view the norm back trials 75 years on. my nominees my name is paid to johan god those in 1944 we were all deported to auschwitz and my entire family was murdered there. goes wrong i'm the class tunk the son of huns flung hitler's deputy and occupied poland he was the governor general and politically responsible for every murder committed there between

19391945. so if you can not my name is not to listen to my maiden name is toma my my father was the assigned defense counsel for a fleet of holes in baghdad. hitler's chief idealogue of loopholes in baghdad and the firs deputy in poland hans funk were among the leading nazis who were in the dock in nuremberg on november 20th 1945 many other high ranking nazis had gone into hiding or like hitler and his propaganda minister use of google those had committed suicide the trials were held in iran back of all places the city where the nazi party had staged its rallies where the fascists had flexed their muscles. now for the 1st time in history a state's rulers were to be held personally responsible for their crimes by an

international tribunal the for war time allied powers the us the soviet union britain and france had agreed to this even before the hostilities ceased in what might be called an irony of history nuremberg the palace of justice was left virtually undamaged by the war room 600 the largest in the criminal court was remodeled to accommodate the trial of the century. could told a retired judge was asked by the americans to defend walls and bag there were too few lawyers who hadn't been compromised during the nazi era. loon who was 17 at the time later accompanied her father to the trial on several occasions to a mind from my own father was picked up by a jeep it was the cia. and i need

to think. a few hours later he returned and said. i've been called on to be the court appointed defense counsel for 2 accused who still don't have any defense lawyers enough kind. won't mind. my father was very distressed and said i had no other choice i had to except. for nicholas funk the trials mark the abrupt end of a carefree childhood his father hans frank hitler's deputy and occupied poland was one of the major war criminals he was called the butcher of poland a fact that didn't escape nicholas who was just 6 at the time of the trial i know. after school someone taunted me minister minister gas canister because i was the son of a rice minister that wasn't so bad another said hey nicky that's what they called

me your dad's going to hang soon all i said was yes. more than $600.00 journalists from around the world followed the nuremberg trials. and you could do new would be machine all you could hear was the translators machines. and. i. if i'm even me it was a tense oppressive atmosphere. that was also charged with shame. fear that. the major war criminals were indicted on the following charges conspiring to commit crimes against peace planning initiating and waging a war of aggression participating in war crimes and crimes against humanity. began a mission. to eat it. all of the accused pleaded not

guilty pay to god dawlish was just 14 years old when he was sent to auschwitz in 1944 along with his mother and his little sister. both of them were killed in the gas chambers pay to god or she survived. for with girls again i followed the proceedings and was gratified to see that at least the main war criminals were put in the dark by the allies. and that in the end they got the punishment they deserved. during the trials testimony from witnesses and documents showed that the jewish victims had been murdered systematically by all these corpses died of suffocation and people. but the major war criminals denied responsibility for the killings of the accused

didn't exactly cover themselves in glory at the nuremberg trials they denied responsibility and blamed everything on their superiors they were just following orders they pinned it all on their dead leader hitler. and so they tried to deny everything. they wanted then in the trial they were shown films of the concentration camps with the mountains of corpses. even killing was stunning you could see that. there is a. doctor to houma for the defendant rose and beg for alfred toma an avowed opponent of the nazi regime who now had to defend a nazi war criminal the proceedings were grueling and to dust the ha. i was a real shock for everyone involved basically all of the lawyers. because

they'd never suspected the dimension of the crime. but. nish. they didn't know the extent of the atrocities committed at auschwitz. show talk back in both us my father certainly did and. it was conducted with the so many germans only learned the full extent of the nazis crimes during the trial including those committed by mick last clunks father. just to prove up so i have the feeling that he was rightfully charge them for these because i saw photos of the corpses of the concentration camps including the bodies of children who were my age at the time and that shocked me because it only said underneath them poland i thought poland belong to us the funk family my oldest brother norman saw the photos and he went to our mother and said mom if the photos

are real dad doesn't stand a chance of you can you show us. on october 1st 1946 the verdicts were announced of the accused 3 were acquitted 3 received lifetime sentences and 4 were given prison sentences. 12 were sentenced to death the executions took place not long afterwards in the trial court's former jim. you know when i saw it at the cinema they showed that they're not how they were hanging about them wanting in their coffins with the white and black stripe robe around their necks i thought they all deserved to wear those neckties and is a kind of a good. 12 more trials took place at the u.s. military tribunal in norm back. of the $185.00 additional defendants $24.00 were initially sentenced to death. we need to i don't

think that we germans back then or even later on condemned those criminals. the allies did it for us. nish v d she applies i don't know how those trials would have gone in a german court. after the last of the american led trials few attempts were made to capture and prosecute other nazi war criminals the world was preoccupied by the cold war and germans once again had the say in their own courtrooms so many former nazis remained in positions of authority in the young federal republic of germany. many of the others who had blood on their hands were never caught.

after being led in the direction of democracy by the allies the victors who freed us it would really have been good to clean house and charge everyone. but naturally people didn't want that especially those guilty of crimes. when. they used their connections to prevent that and then the supreme court exonerated all of the judges. teach ya the justice system never really cleaned house. the old judges and department heads were back again. and sitting on the constitutional court and caused. still the nuremberg trials were a historic milestone. and they later pave the way for the creation of the international criminal court in the hague. was i and she give

us poor g.p. from info but you only positive thing to come out of my father's criminal life was that due to him those 4 indictments were invented or found to put people like him on trial. for who wished him to. always carries a photo of his father who was sentenced to death and hanged whenever he feels just the tiniest sense of pity for his father he thinks about the images of auschwitz and that restores his belief that justice was served at the norm bad trials.

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