The Nuremberg Legacy
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4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
It's 75 years since the judgement at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Nineteen high ranking Nazis were found guilty of war crimes, crimes against peace, crimes against humanity and conspiracy to commit those crimes. Twelve of them were condemned to death. The trial, which lasted almost a year, made history and the principles of international criminal law first established there are still fundamental to international justice today. The writer and lawyer, Philippe Sands examines the legacy of Nuremberg in subsequent war crimes trials and the founding of the International Criminal Court in the Hague 50 years later. He speaks to people who were there in Courtroom 600 in Nuremberg, as well as leading judges and lawyers in today's international justice system.
Producer Caroline Bayley Editor Jasper Corbett
Image: View of the judges bench in Nuremberg International Military Tribunal (IMT) court in September 1946. Credit AFP via Getty Images
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
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| 0:58.0 | Defendant Hermann Wilhelm Gury, on the counts of the indictment on which you have been convicted, the |
| 1:05.8 | international military bill sentences you to death by hanging. |
| 1:11.2 | Defendant, Hans Frank, on the counts of the indictment on which you have been convicted, |
| 1:18.0 | the tribunal sentences you to death by hanging. |
| 1:22.4 | The sentences were delivered on October 1st, |
| 1:24.6 | 1946, 75 years ago, in court from 600 of Nuremberg's Palace of Justice, |
| 1:30.6 | on the last day of the International Military Tribunal's case against 24 top Nazi. |
| 1:37.0 | 19 were found guilty of crimes against humanity or war crimes or waging illegal war. Three were acquitted and no judgment was given in respect of two others. |
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