rts to push forward. The Germans now started burning buildings one by one and street by street. Even though they didn’t surrender, Jews were seen as freedom fighters to other Jews. The ghetto was supposed to be dealt with in three days. The Jews held out for more than a month. In the final days of the war, American soldiers came across the Nazi concentration camps. The concentration camps were not their targets, but the American soldiers stumbled upon their existence. The war ended and the Jews still could not return home because their homes were either destroyed or occupied by strangers. Most Jews immigrated to other countries or the US; but not all Jews were wanted. In the winter of 1943 Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin declared that they would bring the Nazi leaders to justice. An agreement was made to have joint trials. Three forms of crimes were specified on the indictment: Crimes against the Peace—planing, preparation, initiation, or waging of a war of aggression;War crimes—violations of laws and customs of war such as the murder, ill-treatment, or deportation of slave labor or for any purpose of civilian populations… killing of hostages, prisoners of war, plunder property, destruction of towns and cities;Crimes Against Humanity—murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation… against any civilian population… persecution on political, racial, or religious grounds… whether or not in violation of domestic laws of the country where perpetrated. (Witness to the Holocaust, 1997, p. 328)The first series of trials were Hitler’s trusted lieutenant Herman Goering, Nazi party officials, cabinet ministers, ministers of armaments and labor, ranking bureaucrats, military leaders, and German occupation officials. The second series of trials of 185 defendants were divided into twelve groups. These trials consisted of the doctors, mobile killing units offi...
