#OTD in #Nuremberg, February 2, 1946 — Trial Day 49 — As French counsel for the prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials, Edgar Faure began presenting the sequence of measures that reshaped Luxembourg under German rule. He traced how the country’s sovereignty was steadily dismantled: political parties were banned under the ordinances of August and October 1940, the Chamber of Deputies and State Council were dissolved, and even courtroom formulas changed from invoking the Grand Duke to the words “in t

On this day in 1945, the Nuremberg trials begin, in which 24 high-ranking Nazi leaders are tried for war crimes before an International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. | We Are The Mighty

The end of the Reich: The Nuremberg Trials. The Nazis face their crimes. Restored and colorized history https://youtu.be/_z5VmOs4yaY Witness the historic Nuremberg Trials, the moment the architects of the Nazi regime were brought to justice, in this fully restored and colorized version of the official 1947 documentary film. This historical record, produced by the U.S. Department of War, presents the irrefutable evidence and courtroom proceedings of the International Military Tribunal that held t