{"id":972,"date":"2015-12-09T14:22:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T19:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/?p=972"},"modified":"2015-12-09T14:22:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T19:22:54","slug":"presentation-of-the-cases-70-years-after-nuremberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2015\/12\/09\/presentation-of-the-cases-70-years-after-nuremberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation of the Cases [70 Years After Nuremberg]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nuremberg Palace<\/p><\/div>\n

The early days of December 1945 saw a series of opening statements outlining the major counts of the indictment as well as those being brought against organizations such as the SS and Gestapo.\u00a0 Although not necessarily exciting, the presentations served to outline the case and evidence to support the indictments\u00a0against the Nazis and the Third Reich, as well as their allies,\u00a0collaborators and specific actions leading up to and throughout the years of World War II.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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Trial dates and sessions<\/p><\/div>\n

On December 5th, 1945, Chief British Prosecutor Harley Shawcross\u00a0began his opening statement for the case of Conspiracy to Commit Aggressive War.\u00a0 Dodd wrote that the Attorney General of Great Britain “did a lawyer like presentation and his presentation was well received.” [pg. 209, 12\/6\/1945]. The following day,\u00a0Sidney Alderman continue his presentation on the aggression\u00a0against Czechoslovakia.\u00a0 “[H]e is so slow and he drones on by the hour”, Dodd continued in his letter to Grace.\u00a0Alderman was expected to wrap up his continuing\u00a0presentation about Japanese aggression against the U.S. and\u00a0German aggression against<\/p>\n

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Statement of Evidence, Collaboration with Italy and Japan<\/p><\/div>\n

Russia the following week.\u00a0 Dodd was expecting to begin his presentation on slave labor, to be followed by his statement on\u00a0concentration camps once Alderman concluded.<\/p>\n

On a more personal note, the holidays were approaching and the staff was unsure if the court would take a recess in observance.\u00a0 If there was to be a break, Tom hoping to be granted\u00a0permission to make a quick trip home to spend Christmas with his family in Connecticut.<\/p>\n

It is to be noted that tomorrow\u00a0marks the 67th anniversary of the adoption of the\u00a0Universal Declaration of Human Rights\u00a0 by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris (10 December 1948).\u00a0 \u00a0The Declaration came into existence as a result of the Second World War and\u00a0the Crimes against Humanity\u00a0illuminated during the International Military Tribunals.<\/p>\n

–Owen Doremus and Betsy Pittman<\/p>\n

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[Owen Doremus, a junior at Edwin O. Smith High School, is supporting this blog series with research and writing as part of an independent study.]<\/p>\n

The majority of the letters from Tom Dodd to his wife Grace have been published and can be found in Letters from Nuremberg, My father\u2019s narrative of a quest for justice<\/em>. Senator Christopher J. Dodd with Lary Bloom. New York: Crown Publishing, 2007.<\/p>\n

Images available in Thomas J. Dodd Papers<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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