International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg and Tokyo) Judges gathers the judges of the two Allied tribunals convened immediately after the Second World War to try the major leaders of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity: the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which sat in 1945 and 1946 with one judge and one alternate from each of the four Allied powers, and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East at Tokyo, which sat from 1946 to 1948 with judges drawn from eleven Allied and Allied-associated nations. The two tribunals established, for the first time in international law, that individuals rather than only states could be held criminally responsible under international law for waging aggressive war, a principle every later international and ad hoc criminal tribunal grouped elsewhere in this subcategory continues to apply.
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Defining CharacteristicJudges of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (the Tokyo Trial), convened to try leaders of the Empire of Japan, modeled after the Nuremberg tribunal. 1 Defining CharacteristicJudges of the Nuremberg trials, held by France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States against leaders of defeated Nazi Germany. 2 Formation Year Browse By
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1. International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Wikipedia)
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The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on April 29, 1946, to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for their crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity, leading up to and during World War II.
2. Nuremberg Trials (Wikipedia)
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The Nuremberg trials were international criminal trials held by France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States against leaders of defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of several countries across Europe and committing atrocities against their citizens in the Second World War.
Nuremberg trials, lead section, dates
Between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946, the International Military Tribunal (IMT) tried 22 of the most important surviving leaders of Nazi Germany in the political, military, and economic spheres, as well as six German organizations.
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