Three Holocaust survivors reflect on a milestone in international justice and their struggle to come to terms with the past'The slate will never be clean': lessons from the Nuremberg trials 75 years on'The slate will never be clean': lessons from the Nuremberg trials 75 years onAt 10am, the men were led into the courtroom and ushered into a specially adapted dock, flanked by American military police. The Nuremberg trials were a milestone in international criminal law, under which individuals and organisations are held accountable for some of the worst crimes imaginable. Now 88, Perl was 13 years old when the first Nuremberg trial opened. Now aged 85, Frank was 10 years old when the first Nuremberg trial opened. “And the Nuremberg trials led to the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, and later the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2020 10:31 UTC