Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany surrendering in May and its leaders going on trial ...

Twenty-two of the indicted men eventually sat in the dock in the Nuremberg courtroom. Three of the defendants escaped trial: industrialist Gustav Krupp, who was too frail; Hitler's private ...

The Justice Department delivered part of special counsel Jack Smith’s report to Congress early Tuesday morning, explaining ...

A growing legal movement has turned to the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows national courts to take on war-crimes cases, regardless of where those crimes were committed or the ...

Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany surrendering in May and its leaders going on trial for war crimes in November.

Many defendants argued successfully that they ... use in the trial to show how insignificant he was. “There were the Nuremberg trials after the war, where the big shots and responsible officers ...

On trial at Nuremberg were the Nazis’ top brass. Here, the defendants are “second stringers, since those who did the killing are dead,” either as a result of blowing themselves up or of ...

In July 1948, after nearly a year, 10 of the 24 defendants were acquitted and 13 ... Chronicle asked Ambros in a telephone interview about his 1948 conviction at Nuremberg for mass murder and slavery, ...

Jackson, who had previously served as solicitor general, attorney general, and the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials ... "Persons desiring to hear defendant speak filled the 800 ...

These two books mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Nuremberg tribunal, but with the trial of Saddam Hussein dragging on in Iraq they could hardly be more topical. The issue of the responsibility of ...

Helena Foulkes comes from a powerful political family. A very influential family with deep political and financial ...