Wartime Trials

War crimes trials conducted while the war was still being fought; this mostly concerns Stalinist show trials held in the USSR, beginning in 1943. For war crimes trials conducted after the surrender of Germany and Japan, see under “Post WWII Revisionism.”

American Jurists and Attorneys Opposing Injustice at Nuremberg

The Nuremberg and later trials were organized primarily for political purposes rather than to dispense impartial justice. This article will discuss the efforts of three American attorneys to expose and correct the injustice of these trials. Charles F. Wennerstrum Iowa Supreme Court Justice Charles F. Wennerstrum, who served as the presiding judge in the Nuremberg…

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