The document discusses the Nuremberg trials which were a series of 13 trials held in Nuremberg, Germany between 1945-1949. The trials were established to bring Nazi war criminals to justice and try them for crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. Key Nazi officials and military officers, as well as industrialists, lawyers, and doctors were tried. The trials established a permanent international court for dealing with genocide and other serious international crimes.

1. Aim: What were the
Allied plans for the
postwar world?
Do Now: HW Quiz

2. European front

3. The Yalta Conference
The
uncool
one

4. Germany after the Yalta
Conference

5. Who are these men? And what do you
think they are watching?

6. Holocaust footage

7. The Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out
in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949. They were
held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice.
The defendants included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking
military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and
doctors.
•The charges were crimes against peace and crimes
against humanity. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler committed
suicide and was never brought to trial.
•The Nuremberg trials established a permanent
international court for dealing with genocide and other
crimes against humanity.
The Nuremberg Trials

9. The ‘Final Solution’
• In January 1942,
Heinrich Himmler,
director of the
persecution of the
Jews, decided that a
new ‘Final Solution’
was necessary.
• Final Solution:
exterminating

10. How did the Nazis decide who
was Jewish?
• grandparents were
Jewish
• Married to a Jew
• Child of a Jew
• Jewish by conversion of
faith
• Association with Jews
• By 1940, all Jews had to
have their passports
stamped with the letter ‘J’

11. The American response to the
Holocaust
• Despite knowing about violence toward the
Jews, American immigration is limited
–Quota of 150,000 annually (per country)
• Finally in 1944, FDR created the War Refugee
Board.
–Through this board, the United States was
able to help 200,000 Jews.

12. Pacific front

13. The Potsdam Conference
Still the
uncool
one

14. The A-Bomb is used against Japan

15. • Was the
use of the
Atomic
bomb
necessary
?
Should the US
be tried for