Valerie

**__ Social Studies __**
 * Valerie Jimenez - March 28, 2012 **
 * Incarnation - School Class 8-41 **
 * __Nuremberg Trials: __**


 * The Nuremberg Trials were trials set against the German Nazis starting on November 20th of the year 1945. These trials tried many Nazi leaders for their inhumane crimes during World Word II. **
 * There were 24 leaders in the Nazi Party. Through the Nuremberg Trials, three of them were set free, ten were hung, two commit suicide during the trials, and the rest were sent to life-in-prison. But in total, the trials had 24 executions, 128 imprisonments, and 35 Nazis were set free. **
 * Anyways, the Nazis were trialed for massive amounts of murder and other cruel crimes. The Nazis killed approximately 6 million Jews because they believed Jews were the cause to all German problems. Nazi shot countless amounts of Jews, sent them to camps, shaved their heads, and had them killed in chamber showers that were filled with poisonous/toxic liquids [not water]. These lifeless bodies were buried in camps where Nazis dug up acres of land - thousands of bodies crammed up together. Also, Nazis killed Soviet Union prisoners and anyone who came in their way. Clearly, the Nazis did many cruel things to innocent people and were charged for it. This all lead to the Nuremberg Trials after World War II. **
 * (The following sums up the Crimes committed by Nazi leaders and their supporters/followers/insubordinates.] **
 * **__ Crime #1 __**** – Conspiracy to commit crimes alleged in the next three counts. **
 * **__ Crime #2 __**** - Planning, preparing, starting, or waging aggressive war. **
 * **__ Crime #3 __**** – War crimes including violations of laws or customs of war. **
 * **__ Crime #4 __**** – Crimes against humanity: including murder, extermination, enslavement, persecution on political or racial grounds, involuntary deportment, and inhumane acts against civilian populations. **
 * The Nuremberg Trials lasted until October 1, 1946. **
 * __Side detail: __**
 * Adolf Hitler was supposed to be tried in the Nuremberg Trials. Why? Because he was the main Nazi leader, the dictator/tyrant of Nazi Germany. But he wasn’t. How could a man who was the cause to such cruel and heartless crimes not be trialed? Well, Adolf Hitler committed suicide before he could be even trialed – he knew he’d be executed through hanging for his crimes. So he took his life on his own to not have to go through the whole process just to die in the end anyways. **