Trial of War Criminals; Documents: 1 Report of Robert H. Jackson to the President, 2 Agreement Establishing an International Military Tribunal, 3 Indictment [Title and Subtitle from front cover]

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1945. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. [2], 89, [5] pages. Cover has wear, soiling, and edge chips. Department of State Publication 2420. This includes: Report of Robert H. Jackson to the President, released by the White House on June 7, 1945; Agreement for the Establishment of an International Military Tribunal; Charter of the International Military Tribunal; International Military Tribunal: Indictment Number 1; Appendix A. Statement of Individual Responsibility for Crimes Set Out in Counts One, Two, Three and Four; Appendix B: Statement of Criminality of Groups and Organizations; and Appendix C: Charges and Particulars of Violations of International Treaties, Agreements and Assurances Caused by the Defendants in the Course of Planning, preparing and Initiating the Wars. The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals held after World War II by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war. The trials were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany, who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in the Holocaust and other war crimes. The trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany, and their decisions marked a turning point between classical and contemporary international law. The first and best known of the trials was that of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal (IMT). It was described as "the greatest trial in history" by Sir Norman Birkett, one of the British judges present throughout. Held between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946, the Tribunal was given the task of trying 24 of the most important political and military leaders of the Third Reich. Further trials of lesser war criminals were conducted under Control Council Law No. 10 at the U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunal (NMT), which included the Doctors' trial and the Judges' Trial. The categorization of the crimes and the constitution of the court represented a juridical advance that would be followed afterward by the United Nations for the development of an international jurisprudence in matters of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and wars of aggression, and led to the creation of the International Criminal Court. For the first time in international law, the Nuremberg indictments also mention genocide (count three, war crimes: "the extermination of racial and national groups, against the civilian populations of certain occupied territories to destroy particular races and classes of people and national, racial, or religious groups, particularly Jews, Poles, and Gypsies and others.") Justice Robert H. Jackson played an important role in not only the trial itself but also in the creation of the International Military Tribunal, as he led the American delegation to London that, in the summer of 1945, argued in favor of prosecuting the Nazi leadership as a criminal conspiracy. Condition: Good.

Keywords: Robert Jackson, International Military Tribunal, Individual Responsibility, Criminality of Groups, Violations of International Treaties, Indictment, Criminality of Organizations, War Plans

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