Which was a major result of the Nuremberg trials?
A)national leaders were held personally responsible for war crimes against humanity The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany after its defeat in World War II. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_T...
I am doing Nuremberg trials in school.... I am defending Julius Streicher.... Any Ideas?
He was found guilty for crimes against humanity for spreading propaganda against the Jews. Remember that those countries that had representatives whose population freely published the same hate speech before and after the trials. Crimes against humanity started after WWII so he wasn't breaking any laws when he was actually writing all this stuff.
How did Nazi soldiers or SS forces feel about killing Jews in cold blood? Is there a personal account or study on those who were involved in killing victims in cold blood, making them dig their graves and shooting them in back of the head?
It’s well documented that many soldiers of the SS Einsatzgruppen had a hard time following orders to kill people. For those who are unaware, the SS Einsatzgruppen were mobile killing squads sent into occupied territory to kill the Jews and other non-Aryans. They were a precursor to the camps, and they were used before the camps were built.The SS moved away from mass executions for two reasons, it was time consuming and wasteful, secondly, many SS men refused to carry out orders. The men that did carry out the orders often required alcohol to get through with it. There aren't really any statistics for how many man refused on average, but it was significant enough to cause concern among the SS leadership. As Christopher Browning (author of the popular "Ordinary Men") put it, there were three types of SS men, those who had no issues carrying out the mass killings, those who had issues but used alcohol or other coping methods to carry them out anyways, and finally those who refused outright.In fact, the killings were so brutal and psychologically harming, that when Himmler went to his first and last mass execution, he became nervous after the first few volleys, and when the subjects wouldn’t die, he pleaded the Police Sergeant not to torture them.Himmler tried to address this problem by making commanders organise social events and other outreach programs to make the men feel better, yet they were largely ineffective. A local SS commander, Eirc Von Dem Bach, told him that the psyche of his men had hit an all time low, with them being deeply shaken and either neurotics or savages.If you didn’t take part in a mass killing, you could be punished, but it wouldn’t be too bad. You could return to Germany, take a reduction in pay, demotion, anything small like that.Now during the Belzec Trial, there were a few interesting stories that came out, many involving Commadant Christian Wirth. Wirth ruled with an iron fist and anyone who dissented was punished. There are multiple stories that came out of Belzec concentration camp. One is that an SS man refused to carry out an execution and Wirth pulled a pistol on him. Or another example, when SS Erich Fuchs was ordered by Wirth to fix shower heads in the newly erected gassing barracks, he questioned Wirth as to why there were showers with no water pipes, Wirth flew into a rage and beat Fuchs; he then ordered two SS guards to take him away and shoot him, they ended up taking Wirth with them.
Are there any stories of Nazis' feeling guilty during or after the war?
Former Nazi guard Reinhold Hanning.“I’m ashamed that I knowingly let injustice happen and did nothing to oppose it”.These were the words that Hanning spoke at his trial in 2016. Hanning was a guard at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, who was sent there after being wounded in battle.“I’ve tried to repress this period for my whole life. Auschwitz was a nightmare, I wish I had never been there,” he said to his lawyer.“I accept his apology but I can’t forgive him,” said Leon Schwarzbaum, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor and co-plaintiff.Hanning was not charged with directly killing prisoners, but he’s been accused of facilitating the slaughter in his capacity as a guard.The article is here: Former Nazi Guard Apologizes To Victims: 'Auschwitz Was A Nightmare'Oskar Gröning, former SS bookkeeper of AuschwitzThis one I feel it deserves a share, but I’ll let you be the judge.At his trial in 2015, it was noted that Gröning was suffering from dementia, so some prosecutors said he might not show remorse.Gröning was sent to Auschwitz in 1942, where he became an “enthusiastic” member of the Auschwitz Sports Club. He was mainly responsible for the luggage that the Jews brought to Auschwitz. He said that he “went by the Nazi book” by saying that “the Jews’ land and property belonged to the State and they had to hand it over.”His only regret was the lack of military drill for the Nazi soldiers, but he did mention that while he was at the platform at Auschwitz, a fellow soldier “slammed a baby into the iron strut of a truck until it was dead.” He said that still haunts him.Here’s the link: Demented, Dying, but on Trial, the Last Nazis Reveal Their True Evil
Did the Nazis really make soap and buttons out of Jews in Austchwitz?
Apparently, yes. Dr. Rudolf Spanner designed a process to produce soap from human fat in 1943-44 and that a limited quantity of the soap was produced in Danzig, partially from Stutthof victims' bodies. This story for some time was considered by some Holocaust researchers to be a myth with origins dating back to World War I.[5] However, recent historical research confirmed the story as true.[6] ------------- I think the woman who collected interesting tattoos from camp prisoners was Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant at Auschwitz.
What happened to the remains of Goebbels, Goering and those hanged at Nuremberg?
For those individuals who were convicted and sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials (including Goering, who avoided the hangman's noose by committing suicide just hours before his scheduled hanging) were cremated and their ashes scattered so as not to provide a memorial location for unrepentant Nazis. Goebbels, who along with his wife arranged the murder of his own children, committed suicide in Berlin shortly after Hitler's death. Like Hitler, he requested that his body be burned. That cremation was even less successful than Hitler's (although burned and his skeleton was damaged by shelling that occurred around the bunker, Hitler's jaw with bridge work survived and was verified after the fall of Soviet Union), and Goebbels body (along with his wife's and children's' bodies) were displayed in film shortly after the fall of Berlin. Allegedly these bodies were initially buried in East Germany, and in the 1970's disinterred, cremated, and ashes scattered.