The Trials Of The War II - 1096 Words

After World War II, the victorious associates made a decision to hold a trail for the defeated Nazi officials. These Trails continued from November 20, 1945 till October 1, 1946. In these Tails, defendant use Nuremberg Defense, a legal strategy employed by many of the defendants at the Nuremberg war crimes trials seeking to convict Nazi perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War, as a defense by claiming they were not guilty of charges against them as they were simply following orders (Rationalwiki). Even though the victors claimed that they would give the defendant a fair trial, on closer examination anyone can see that in reality, these trails were biased and were a victor’s justice (A†¦show more content†¦Being a different couldn’t make anyone superior or inferior to one another â€Å"Diversity is our strength, we say. There is not an American president who would say anything else: We are a country made stro nger by our individuality, by our differences.†(Rodriguez). No doubt, Hitler had a lot of followers and who knows if some or even all of them were forced into this just out of fear. Once they were committed, they must have realize that they were not getting out of it. Also, the law requires them to do things even though they did not want to do it which also includes the Holocaust. In from Crito by Plato, the dialogue of Socrates explain that the law exist as one unit, to break one means to break them all, and by disobeying the law one can start the anarchy in country. One should never break the law even they have to sacrifice themselves or take life for it. Some of the accusers had to perform their deeds because Hitler told them to do so. No one disobey Hitler ever. If they didn’t follow Hitler’s order, then they would have committed a crime against him and Germany. Eliminate the Jews and other people that Hitler and the law requires them to consider those people to be inferior; However, King doesn’t