FILE - In this Nov. 21, 1945 file photo, Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering stands in the prisoner's dock at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial in Germany. He is entering a plea of not guilty to the International Military Tribunal Indictment. Goering is wearing headphones of the court translating system. Germany marks the 75th anniversary of the landmark Nuremberg trials of several Nazi leaders and in what is now seen as the birthplace of a new era of international law on Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (AP Photo, file)
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BERLIN (AP) — Seventy-five years ago, the dock of Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice was packed with some of the most nefarious figures of the 20th Century: Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and 18 other high-ranking Nazis. They weren’t yet known as war criminals. It was a charge that didn’t exist until the Nuremberg trials that began on Nov. 20, 1945, in what is now seen as the birthplace of a new era of international law.
75 years ago, high-ranking Nazis were put on trial in Nuremberg. Three witnesses look back at the Nuremberg trials. pic.twitter.com/XzrH2y7Kjz
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The proceedings broke new ground in holding government leaders individually responsible for their aggression and slaughter of millions of innocents.
Its legacy lives on in the International Criminal Court of today.
