The Nuremberg Trails

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The paper discusses the impact of the Nuremberg trials on the United States and the US attitude towards human rights violations. The paper examines the influence of the Nuremberg trials as it relates to the development of the Declaration of Human Rights. The paper further examines the International Criminal Court (ICC/Rome Treaty), including the U. S. involvement in the ICC and why the U.S. initially supported it. The writer proposes that the U.S. has been hypocritical in not supporting the ICC, and explores the use of torture at Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib.

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"The author further explains that during 1944 when it was evident that the War would soon be over President Roosevelt requested that the War Department develop a strategy for bring those responsible for war crimes to justice (Linder 2000). Prior to the plan created by the War department the Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau had developed a strategy that entailed shooting the Nazi leaders that were responsible for these crimes and forcing other that were involved to live in exile in various places around the world (Linder 2000)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• A Win for American Democracy; Bush Renounces International Criminal Court Treaty. Newspaper Title: The Washington Times. Publication Date: May 10, 2002. Page Number: A23.
• Brower, Charles H. "The Lives of Animals, the Lives of Prisoners and the Revelations of Abu Ghraib." Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 37, no. 5 (2004): 1353+.
• "Nuremberg Revisited." The Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 1999, 84.
• Establishment of International Criminal Court. United Nations. http://www.un.org/law/icc/general/overview.htm
• Letter 'shows Guantanamo torture', 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3706050.stm

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