Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Students will discuss the purpose and outcomes of the Nuremberg Trials and other subsequent trials related to the Holocaust. Clarification 2: Students will compare arguments by the prosecution and recognize the falsehoods offered by the defense during the Nuremberg Trials (e.g., Justice Robert Jackson’s opening statement, Prosecutor Ben Ferencz’s opening statement, ex post facto laws, non-existent terminology, crimes against humanity, genocide, statute of limitations, jurisdictional issues). Clarification 3: Students will discuss how members of the international community were complicit in assisting perpetrators’ escape from both Germany and justice following World War II.
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