Choose any two defendants at the Nuremburg IMT. Describe the case against each defendant, and compare and contrast the relative level of criminality of each defendant.

The IMT was situated in the Bavarian Central Court Room of Justice. The intention of the trial was to demonstrate the allies' impartial administration of justice. The indictment had to be translated into four separate languages, French, English, German and Russian, comprised of 24 000 words and took nearly two days to read. In all there were twenty four defendants charged with the commission of four crimes: 1. Crimes against peace 2. Conspiracy to wage war 3. War crimes, and 4. …

…baustin/trials3.html on the 9/5/05 <Tab/>Avalon Project at Yale Law School, Judgment: Goering, accessed at www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/judgoeri.html on the 9/5/05 <Tab/>The Avalon Project at Yale Law School, Judgment: Bormann, accessed at www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/judborma.htm on the 9/5/05 <Tab/>Davidson E, The Trial of the Germans, Macmillan, USA, 1966