Word: nuremberg
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...Serbs, two Croats and one Muslim allegedly responsible for such atrocities in Bosnia and Croatia; the accused ranged from the very obscure (concentration-camp commander Drago Prcac) to the globally notorious (Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic). All, said Eagleburger, should be hauled before an international court of justice -- a "second Nuremberg" -- and tried for war crimes...
...between Germany, Russia and Chile, and it finally came about after personal talks between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Chilean President Patricio Aylwin. The trial is unlikely to start until October at the earliest, but many fear it could prove politically messy, even stirring up unwanted memories of the Nuremberg trials. Meanwhile, newly discovered East German military files reveal that at least 350 people, double the previously known number, died while trying to reach the West. According to German television, the former communist regime covered up some of the fatalities by telling families of the victims that their loved ones...
...evidence is potentially so explosive that the hearings, which could last several weeks, have been compared in impact to the postwar Nuremberg trials of Germany's Nazi leaders. But Yeltsin's men say they have no desire to start a witch-hunt against specific party officials, including Gorbachev. "There are no victors and no vanquished," says Shakhrai. "People should be tried only for criminal actions, not because they were members of the party nomenklatura." Another team lawyer, Andrei Makarov, puts it more succinctly: "We do not want to turn these hearings into a political show...
...claims to "demolish the repulsive propaganda accusation that during World War II Germans stewed the bodies of exterminated Jews to manufacture soap from them." It calls the assertion a hoax perpetuated by the U.S. and Soviet governments, the Nuremberg court and prominent Jewish groups...
...guards responsible were decorated, given bonuses, extra vacation days and a celebratory meal. Last week the four were put on trial in Berlin, charged with manslaughter. The proceedings are the first of their kind, and getting convictions will be no small task. The accused, say their attorneys, citing the Nuremberg defense, were just following orders...