en back, they were ashen white, almost a blue color also, their ribs would protrude their arms the size of broomsticks, legs the same, and we didn’t know – I didn’t know who they were.” This was all outside of the camp. When they walked by the gate they saw hundreds lying there. They all thought they too were dead until they started to move, that's when they entered the camp and saw the horrible site. He said it was a sight that sickened him and one that he will never forget. Most accounts upon liberation of camps are similar. The world didn't know about the Nazi’s dirty little secret and through the race to Berlin the allies slowly uncovered it. The world was appalled by this. This led to the creation of the Nuremberg trials prior to the defeat of the Nazi’s. On October of 1945, United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Unionissued 4 indictments against 21 men for war crimes. The indictments were:*Count 1 -CONSPIRACY to commit crimes alleged in the next three counts. Count 2 -CRIMES AGAINST PEACE including planning, preparing, starting, or waging aggressive war. Count 3 -WAR CRIMES including violations of laws or customs of war. Count 4 -CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY including murder, extermination, enslavement, persecution on political or racial grounds, involuntary deportment, and inhumane acts against civilian population*indictments were copied and pasted from a website*Some of the defendants included, Herman Goring, Rudolf Hess, Hans Frank, Albert Speer and Hans Fritzsche. Most of the defendants were either sentenced to death by hanging or imprisonment.Because we know that Heinrich Himmler started and was in charge of the death camps we don't know for certain if Hitler even knew much about the camps or even if he really committed suicide in his bunker. My answer to both is yes. We must also remember the holocaust is by far the worst act of the 20th century but probably not in the history of the hu...
