An Allied tribunal brings Nazi leaders to account Nuremberg, Germany 1945

If Winston Churchill had gotten his way, the Nuremberg Trials never would have taken place. His preferred method for dealing with captured Nazi leaders at the end of World War II was to line them up against a wall and shoot them. But ultimately, the key Allies—the United States, the Soviet Union, France and Britain—agreed on the importance of demonstrating that, unlike the Nazis, the rest of the world was committed to following the principles of a civilized rule of law. —Read the article by Lori B. Andrews.

Image: First Nuremberg trial; Hermann Göring on the left. Courtesy Wikipedia.