~NUREMBERG TRIALS~

A1. When and why were they held? After the Holocaust, some criminals were brought to trials. Nuremberg was chosen as the place for those trials that took place in 1945 A2. Where did the judges come from? The judges were from the Allied powers (Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States and France), and they heard the arguments of some Nazi criminals. A3. What crimes were the defendants tried for? They were tried for crimes against peace, such as relating to an assault war or an infringement of international agreements that led to the war. Also to crimes of war such as breaking the laws with murder, wrong treatment or forced work with war prisoners and destruction of the cities. To crimes against humanity as the slavery, the deportation and other inhuman actions against population before or during the war. And also for crime conspiration.
A4.  Why were many of the most senior Nazis never tried?  Because although some defendants claimed they were following the orders of their bosses, lots of senior Nazi commited suicide knowing they were going to be sent to prison or they couldn't overcome their crimes, while other ones just escaped.
A5. Who's Simon Wiesenthal? What happened to him during WWII? He was born in Austry-Hungary. While his wife escaped from going to a concentration camp, he became a war prisoner at the Mauthausen-Busen because he was Jewish, but at the end he could survive thanks to the American soldiers who freed people from the camps.

A6. What did he do after the war? Why? After the war, he spent his life finding Nazi criminals and identifying the ones who escaped from the judgements, so he was a researcher and helped the Allied powers to find them to make the German people pay for what they had done.