The Amazing Story of U.S. Army Chaplains Who Ministered to Nazi Leaders at the Nuremberg Trials

By Published on November 23, 2015

Should anyone who commits evil on a massive scale be offered a path to forgiveness?

In the months before the opening of the International Military Tribunal — which took place 70 years ago Friday — the people who were devising the Nuremberg Trials had to contend with those questions.

Holding Nazi leaders accountable for World War II was an experiment. At the time, there was no legal precedent for framing criminal charges against the perpetrators of a war of aggression. Never before had the international community held a state’s major leaders accused, or convicted them of crimes against humanity.

The Trial of the Major War Criminals was, in the words of one of its American prosecutors, “a benchmark in international law and the lodestar of thought and debate on the great moral and legal questions of war and peace.”

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