Facts about Nuremberg Trials

The Nuremberg trials had a great influence on the development of international criminal law.

The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military and economic leadership of Nazi Germany.

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone called the Nuremberg trials a fraud.

The Nuremberg trials initiated a movement for the prompt establishment of a permanent international criminal court, eventually leading over fifty years later to the adoption of the Statute of the International Criminal Court.