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In 1945 Winston Churchill wanted the surviving Nazi leaders shot as soon as they were identified. Instead they were given defense lawyers, headphones in four languages and a year of hearings in a courtroom in Nuremberg, and three of them walked out free. Why would the victors of the deadliest war in history choose to put their enemies on trial rather than simply punish them?

Sit in on the trial through its documents, its witnesses and its hardest moments, from a death squad commander calmly counting his victims to the Soviet attempt to pin its own massacre at Katyn on the Germans. Then follow what came after: the code of medical ethics written in response to Nazi doctors, the Genocide Convention, and the International Criminal Court. You will be able to argue both sides of the charge of victors' justice, and to say why the idea that no leader is above the law still matters.

Levels

  1. 1 1. After the War: Punish, Forget or Judge? 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. Building a Court: The London Charter 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. The Courtroom: Defendants, Judges and Prosecutors 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. The Evidence 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. The Defense Arguments 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. Judgment and Sentences 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. After Nuremberg: Doctors, Tokyo and the Laws of Humanity 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. Legacy and Debate: Justice or Victors' Justice? 5-question quiz

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