1-Crimes against Humanity. 2-War Crimes. 3-Membership in Criminal Org. 1-Crimes against Peace. 4-Common Plan of Conspiracy. 1-Crimes against Peace. against German Nationals. 8-Membership in Criminal Org. 1-Crimes against Peace. enemy 11 MINISTRIES 15 Nov 47 28 Nov 47 *Presiding judge. **Alternate judge. A-Acquitted; D-Death sentence; L-Life sentence; Y-Number of years. †Completion estimated July 48. ttCompletion estimated Aug 48. Appendix B International Conciliation April 1949-No. 450 NUREMBERG TRIALS WAR CRIMES AND INTERNATIONAL LAW Telford Taylor CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE 405 West 117th Street, New York 27, N. Y. PREFACE THIS is an authoritative summary of one of the most challenging events in history, the series of trials of those charged with the major responsibility for plotting the crime of war and for inhuman practices in its conduct. At Nuremberg the conscience of western civilization came to grips not only with the brute force of militarism but also with the inadequacy of the existing law of nations as an embodiment of justice and guaranty of peace. The way in which these obstacles were made the stepping-stones to progress toward a new era is clearly set forth in the following pages. For the serious student of this question they will furnish a guide to the vast mass of evidence and arguments of the trials, a record without parallel in history. For the general reader the detailed accounts may be of less interest than the treatment of the central theme and more especially the closing sections dealing with the major issues, which will long be the subject of discussion and the basis of future practice. All of this is finally brought into focus in the Conclusion. The author, Brigadier General Taylor, as Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, was a prosecutor in the court, but he writes here not as a prosecuting attorney but with the objectivity and judicious temper of a historian. JAMES T. SHOTWELL New York, April 28, 1949. |