Notre Dame Law Review Volume 23 | Issue 1 Article 5 11-1-1947 Nurnberg 1946--The rT ial Paul Reuter Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Paul Reuter, Nurnberg 1946--The Trial, 23 Notre Dame L. Rev. 76 (1947). Available at: http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr/vol23/iss1/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by NDLScholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Notre Dame Law Review by an authorized administrator of NDLScholarship. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. NURNBERG 1946-THE TRIAL In January, 1947, the Notre Dame Lawyer published the first Eng- lish translation of "The Significance of the Nurnberg Trials for Ger- many and the World," by the German philosopher Karl Jaspers. With the permission of the editor of La Vie Intellectuelle we publish here a French view of the trials by Paul Reuter.'-Editor. During the war, the Allies had been led to an increasingly precise and concurring position on the procedures which they intended to use against German war criminals after the victory. Several solemn declarations followed one another: those on January 12, 1942, December 12, 1942 (issued simul- taneously in London, Washington, and Moscow), and the Moscow Declaration of October 30, 1943. From October 20, 1943 athe United Nations Commission on War Crimes, an organization for research and information combining the western Allies, functioned in London. The Potsdam Agree- ment of 1945 laid down the general principles of trial; the war criminals were to be tried according to the law and by the courts of each accusing country.