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The 137 pages that link to Nuremberg Trials, each with the reason it gives.

• VergangenheitsbewältigungRelated: The trials publicly documented crimes and challenged claims that responsibility belonged only to a few leaders.

• Crime against peaceBroader topic: These trials established the offense's first landmark judicial interpretation.

• Crime of aggressionBroader topic: The tribunal prosecuted crimes against peace, the precursor to the modern crime of aggression.

• NurembergBroader topic: The trials gave the city’s name lasting significance in international law.

• Forced labor under Nazi GermanyRelated: The trials addressed deportation and forced labor as crimes and examined officials' responsibility.

• IG FarbenNarrower topic: The IG Farben case formed part of the wider postwar effort to prosecute German wartime crimes.

• National SocialismRelated: They established public records of Nazi crimes and advanced prosecution of international crimes.

• Nazi racial ideologyRelated: The trials documented crimes carried out in the name of Nazi racial rule.

• PorajmosCompared with: Roma genocide received little attention in the principal postwar prosecution of Nazi crimes.

• Show trialCompared with: They sought adjudication under public legal standards, contrasting with proceedings designed to guarantee a political verdict.

• Superior ordersBroader topic: The tribunal rejected superior orders as a complete excuse while allowing them to mitigate punishment.

• Eichmann trialRelated: They established an earlier model for prosecuting Nazi crimes, though Eichmann faced an Israeli court.

• Holocaust historiographyRelated: The trials assembled documentary and testimonial evidence that later historians scrutinized.

• Holocaust survivor testimonyRelated: Survivors gave evidence in legal proceedings addressing Nazi crimes.

• Raphael LemkinRelated: Lemkin pressed for genocide to be recognized, but the Nuremberg Charter did not establish it as a separate crime.

• Reich Security Main OfficeRelated: Evidence about RSHA institutions and personnel helped document the regime’s crimes.

• Waffen-SSRelated: The tribunal addressed the SS’s criminal character and specified conditions for its members’ culpability.

• Deportation of Jews during the HolocaustRelated: Evidence about deportations helped establish responsibility for crimes against humanity.

• Genocide studiesRelated: Their limits in addressing group destruction helped spur arguments for a distinct crime.

• Hunger PlanRelated: Evidence about occupation policy and starvation informed postwar investigations of Nazi crimes.

• Bombing of GuernicaRelated: The raid later entered discussion of German wartime conduct, though it was not prosecuted there.

• Concentration campRelated: Evidence about Nazi camps helped establish accountability for crimes committed through state systems.

• Hans FrankNarrower topic: Frank was tried and convicted in the first International Military Tribunal.

• Myth of the clean WehrmachtRelated: The trials’ treatment of the Wehrmacht as an organization left room for veterans to claim the army itself was untainted.

• Racial antisemitismRelated: The trials documented and prosecuted crimes carried out under Nazi racial rule.

• Rudolf HössRelated: Höss gave evidence at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg in 1946.

• War crimes trialsBroader topic: They established a landmark model for individual criminal accountability after war.

• War of aggressionBroader topic: The International Military Tribunal prosecuted crimes against peace after the Second World War.

• Allies of World War IIRelated: The victors jointly prosecuted senior members of the defeated German regime.

• Arthur Seyss-InquartNarrower topic: Seyss-Inquart was tried and convicted in the International Military Tribunal’s first trial.

• Class A war crimesBroader topic: They were the first major prosecutions under the crimes-against-peace framework.

• Einsatzgruppen TrialNarrower topic: The Einsatzgruppen case was one of the subsequent U.S. trials held after the International Military Tribunal.

• Forced labor in Nazi GermanyRelated: Prosecutors presented forced labor as evidence of crimes against humanity and war crimes.

• Neo-NazismRelated: Their judgments established the criminal record that postwar Nazi sympathizers often deny or contest.

• Pact of ForgettingCompared with: The trials represent criminal accountability rather than negotiated non-prosecution.

• Wilhelm KeitelNarrower topic: Keitel’s conviction and execution came from the International Military Tribunal’s first trial.

• Dachau concentration campCompared with: Unlike the Dachau trials, the Nuremberg proceedings focused chiefly on senior regime leaders.

• Judgment at NurembergNarrower topic: The film adapts the later Judges’ Trial within this broader program of prosecution.

• Nuremberg executionsNarrower topic: The executions were the final punishment imposed by the first trial.

• Postwar GermanyRelated: The trials established a public record of Nazi crimes and individual responsibility.

• Aktion T4Related: Evidence about patient murder informed postwar prosecutions of Nazi medical crimes.

• David IrvingRelated: Their records form part of the documentary evidence Irving challenged or misrepresented.

• Ernst KaltenbrunnerNarrower topic: Kaltenbrunner was tried before the International Military Tribunal in the first Nuremberg trial.

• Georgios TsolakoglouCompared with: Tsolakoglou was prosecuted in Greece, not as a defendant at the Nuremberg trials.

• Karl DönitzRelated: Dönitz was tried by the International Military Tribunal and convicted of war crimes.

• Rudolf HessNarrower topic: Hess was tried by the International Military Tribunal after the war.

• William J. DonovanRelated: After the war, Donovan served as a prosecutor on the United States legal team at Nuremberg.

• Amin al-HusseiniRelated: Al-Husseini was not tried at Nuremberg, despite later claims about his wartime role.

• Amon GöthRelated: They established an international precedent for prosecuting Nazi crimes, though Göth was tried separately in Poland.

• Erich RaederNarrower topic: Raeder’s principal criminal trial took place before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.