it's confirmed that the american pacific plate had acted the same way. former minister of armaments adopted a defense strategy that was rejected by other defendants assuming general responsibility while denying personal guilt. b.s. calculation was that fritz zokol, who provided slave labor for the armament factories, would take the heat for their shared crimes. as chief representative for deployment of labor had provided his superior with 8000000 foreign, forced labor is also used to concentration camp prisoners in his factories against his better judgment. he denied knowledge of their cruel treatment and incriminated for it zokol that it should be a strategy seemed to work. he also exaggerated his own record of resisting hitler. after all, he reasoned,

it was he who had stopped the furious scorched earth policy at the last moment. without proof should be a said he had even wanted to assassinate hitler towards the end of the war. famine during his response, we should never have trusted him. robert jackson was satisfied that albert spears' defense had broken through the united front put up by the others. it seems that good man as a friendly demeanor and public remorse were enough to have an effect on the court. after more than $200.00 days of hearings, the 8 judges retired. they alone would decide on convictions and sentences. their decisions would help answer the question of whether governments could now be held accountable for state crimes. robert jackson felt that his team had produced the

necessary evidence to prove the accused guilty. the case had been made, the evidence was overwhelming. the defendants had not been able to exculpate themselves or deny their signatures their presence in meetings, their knowledge of all of the aspects of the charges. and so jackson, by the close of the case, is very confident that he has done his job as a prosecutor. jackson had some concern about what the judges were going to do. he didn't really entertain the possibility that the case would be lost or that acquittals would occur in a large number of individual or particular charges. that jackson was certain that from now on no state leader old general would be able to explain away war is simply the continuation of politics. by other means,

31st 1946, the accused were given the chance to make final statements. most claimed that they personally had acted in good faith or were banging orders, him and going now except to defeat in the last battle, his era, hitler, he told the court psychologist, had condemned himself. i think if i didn't want, nor did i bring about a war that i did everything i could to avoid it through negotiations. i might when war broke out, i did everything i could to secure the bill homecoming till i had to get i was wrong. and i'm stunned that i wasn't able to prevent what should have been prevented. that's what i'm guilty of. and i'm sure it's a tragedy to have to realize that the best things i could give as

a soldier to be obedience and loyalty were exploited for unforeseeable intentions. i did not see that there is a limit to the soldierly performance of one's duty, and that is my fate that if i could not be one privation and misery has fallen upon the german people who after this trial will despise and condemn hitler as the present author of their misfortune. however, what has happened will teach the world not only to heat the teacher ship as a form of states want to. but furious that

the judges deliberated for 4 weeks. the charge of conspiracy, which was of the heart of the trial, made the americans uneasy. was it possible to see enough areas conspirator, in a powerless, yes, man, like vilhelm keitel, all those involved in the boundless crimes merely using hitler as a shield. for some verdicts were passed quickly. other defendants cases were hotly debated. the french judges shied away from the death penalty, as well as from acquittal. the soviet judges were convinced that all the defendants, without exception, had forfeited their lives. october 1st, $946.00. once again, the whole world looked to nuremberg international military tribunals was to announce the fate of the accused nancy leaders. the accused entered the hall

individually filming was prohibited, but radio reporters and newspaper journalists were allowed. cameron gearing was the 1st to appear on the current 1, 100 year with the marriage here on the grounds of the indictment on which you were being required to prove your claim on the grounds of the indictment on recruitment and you if you get each the fed came in and receive the

set. it's some 3 were acquitted. 7 received very in terms of imprisonment or 12 for ex receive the death sentence that very solid room. they took the census lead. there was no outbursts in the courtroom of any kind. very formal of it. alfred. yodel wilhelm keitel fritz and culkin, bronner huns, frank and alfred rosenberg were also sentenced to death by hanging. martin borman was sentenced to death in absentia bulger phone. she wrote and i'll bet the state with 20 years in prison, calderon, it's got 10 years heatless vice chancellor franz fun, poppen. right. spang, president, shocked,

and yosef goebbels associate hunts for each or were acquitted. their relief was plain to see in the prison in nuremberg, security precautions were once again tightened to avoid the risk of the death row inmates. committing suicide officials wanted all 11 to be ready for the gallows in their cells. the nazi leaders prepared for their execution kammen during asked to be shot, but his request was rejected. months earlier, he had made friends with an american guard, takes wheelus. the u.s. soldier was apparently willing to fetch during items from the luggage room in exchange for a signed photograph. the executions were scheduled for october 16th lights were kept on around the clock

with the prisoners under constant observation. but during saw his chance, suddenly a guard saw him put an arm across his face and begin to gas. he died within a few minutes. in his suicide note, during claim to have had the cyanide capsule within since his arrest. another one was later found in the luggage room only a few journalists were allowed to report on the executions that night. and after great reporting from marin berg of the combined american network, i was an eyewitness to the execution of the little test. flower of nazi down there, akin to 3370, which until the last stand had been used by the soldiers for their basketball games . we found the execution chamber. it was just 7 minutes after run

a clock. european time. when the american side jumped word and his assistant mounted the 1st platform and took up their positions with a rope and both hundreds were sent back to the prison to bring in germany one progressive to participate in minister you're talking been written for up from 7 for only the 13 there is written down to rip and drop responded brain surely to the permission given to make a last statement. be spoken pen plea like, well god protect germany. god have mercy on my soul. then came the trap. on ribbon bread dial that 129 minutes later i ready the green plaid, ashen, great 62 year old bill and title been braben with the cards of 3 military men and proud of them chaplain. the draft was brung on death. number 2 at 119 and death

came at 133, appearing briefly that they're doing very much. aaron brown or i regret the crimes were committed and were trying to grab your money. we are like that, but i'm throwing the procedure where bring out your favorite, your greeting and climb with the word one of them out of the drama. here 3, with difficulty body was brought in with the others and photographed during the night,

the corpses of the nazi leaders and military personnel were transported to munich and burned. their ashes were scattered into a branch of the east river. and those sentenced to imprisonment were taken to the war criminals. prison in the berlin suburb of spandau in the following years general tells the tale and would go on to prosecute the subsequent 12 nuremberg trials against doctors, military personnel, industrialists, ministry officials, and the henchmen of the s.s. jackson's goal had been to ensure the dictators could never again, hide behind the mask of a sovereign state. the involvement of the soviet union hampered his efforts, but the nuremberg verdicts went on to be enshrined in the charter of the united nations. i think probably the major contribution of the international military tribunal was to declare war as an international

quote. it's a war, it's the aggressive war that flies behind these other crimes that we prove are different. not until half a century later would robot jackson's vision receive a new life in the form of the international criminal court in the hague. there constantly growing, living costs allies. they're becoming more densely populated. and now cities are facing to the beat of they've become breeding grounds for the virus. is it the end of the worlds? a new beginning,

city planning influx made in germany. in 30 minutes on w. how's your view of the world? where i come from? not all that glitters is gold. it's just like this chinese food doesn't matter where i am. it's always reminds me of home. after decades of living in germany, china is still just one of the things i miss the most. but that taking a step back, i see things a little of difference here. now. many of the words 1st as an articulation that exists, the other part of the war haven't been after the mentors in china. that you, chinese people wondering if their forties a lot of people have the right to learn. all that is, this is the job of just under them how i see it. and that's why i've been up my job because i tried to do it exactly. it is every day my name is out in 2 and i work at

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