The international gathering at Nuremberg was the world's first tribunal to hold a country and its leaders responsible for violating these conventions. The Allies' attempt to enforce international ...

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President Harry Truman met in the German town of Potsdam to discuss the fate of Germany ...

In the case of the Nuremberg war crime trials after WW2 (recreated in Radio 4's drama-documentary series, Nuremberg) the authorities were ready for executions and prison sentences, but not ...