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The paper relates that at the end of World War Two, the four major victorious Allied powers, the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and France, put on trial the major surviving Nazi German leaders at Nuremberg, Germany. The paper notes that although the trials lasted through 1949, the first trial is what people think of as the "Nuremberg trials." This essay looks at the main Nuremberg trial in light of the Hague treaties on war.

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"At the end of World War Two, the four major victorious Allied powers, the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and France, put on trial the major surviving Nazi German leaders at Nuremberg, Germany. Though trials lasted through 1949, the first trial is what people think of as the "Nuremberg trials." This trial lasted from November 1945 until sentences were passed on October 1, 1946. Of the 21 defendants, eleven were sentenced to death. Ten were hanged, with Herman Goering escaping hanging..."

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