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To say there are widespread reports.

To say there are widespread reports of abuses by Russian troops in Ukraine is to undersell it.

There have been hundreds and hundreds of cases claiming rape, torture, and murder.

Last week a video of the torture and execution of a Ukrainian soldier at the hands of Russian soldiers shocked the world.

We call these things war crimes and crimes against humanity, but that's a relatively new concept.

Today we're going to talk about the Nuremberg trials, which took some vague ideals and put them into practice.

Joining us is John Barrett.

He's professor of law at St. John's University, a biographer of U.S. Attorney General and Nuremberg Chief Robert

H. Jackson, and an expert, all of this stuff.

So, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much, glad to be here.

Start off with the absolute basics, which we often do. So what were the Nuremberg trials? Well actually a more

basic point is where is Nuremberg I have found in lecturing and writing about

this. Nuremberg is a city in southeastern Germany. It's about 100 kilometers north of Munich.

And it is a beautiful place and has always been a beautiful place. It's a castle city.

It was one of the historic summer castle homes

of the Holy Roman Emperor.

And so it had historical associations.

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