On November 20, 1945, the trial of twenty top Nazi leaders began in a quiet courtroom in Nuremberg, Germany. It was, as U.S. Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson declared, “the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world.” Standing before a global audience still reeling from the ashes of World War II, Jackson warned that “the wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. . .
