In August 1945, in Potsdam on the River Harvel, Germany, there was a fierce dispute over how to deal with Nazi war criminals, the Soviet Union, Britain, and the United States, and the Soviet delegation believed that the standard for these scum was that as long as all germans who had joined the Nazis in Nazi uniforms were shot, the lowest line would also be assigned Siberian work to atone for their sins, but for the SS group, it was necessary to resolutely bury all of them alive.
The British delegation also believed that there was no need to waste time trying to shoot the German Nazi cadres directly, because for what they had done (referring to the launching of the Second World War) had already issued a death sentence for their actions.
But Justice Robert Jackson of the United States delegation is adamant that an open, fair and impartial trial must be held, and he believes that the victor cannot arbitrarily execute a person without a court trial, because it will cause people all over the world to lose respect and faith in the law! The ultimate purpose of the court is to serve the law and make the truly guilty fall to the law!
In this way, the American justice was victorious, and the first international tribunal in history, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, was born.
The old photo below is the scene of the Nuremberg court at that time, and you can feel it.
At the end of the Nazis, old photographs hit the scene of the Nuremberg trials