WRITE NOW: 02/25/13 1.TEXTBOOK What were the Nuremberg Laws? 2.TEXTOOK PAGE 516 – Explain the Nuremberg Trials and their results. 3.What types of crimes would be listed under “crimes against humanity?” A: "Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war.”

Eyewitness…teaches lessons against hate 8/18/99 (CNN) -- Vivien Spitz is determined to steer young people away from bigotry and hate. To do so, the Colorado woman relies on firsthand experience -- photos and testimony that were seared into her memory during the war-crimes trial held after the Holocaust. It was shortly after World War II when Spitz left her Michigan home for Germany, where she became the youngest court reporter at the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Hitler's most notorious henchmen were tried at Nuremberg -- including Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goring. But Spitz worked at the trials of concentration camp doctors -- doctors who carried out hideous experiments on Jews and other camp inmates. She also was given some pictures -- photographic evidence of the crimes in progress and the effect on the victims. Gruesome experiments In one experiment, doctors wanted to see how long a person could live without oxygen. The victim's suffering was captured on film. Spitz saw those pictures and saw the defendants sitting in court.

"I spent almost one year looking at the greatest two rows of evil that anyone could ever imagine, evil in their eyes," Spitz said of the Nazi doctors. Another experiment involved the cold. "And these victims were placed in long narrow tanks of ice water for up to three hours, at which point death occurred," Spitz recalled. Then there were the photos of severed legs, hacked off of living inmates so the doctors could try to attach the limbs to other inmates. Were the unwilling patients given any kind of anesthetic? "Absolutely not," Spitz recalled. She also remembered that the doctors seemed unconcerned about the failure of their experiment. But Spitz, a Catholic of German descent, was disturbed by testimony. "I would have to put my head down as I was writing because I had tears in my eyes from what I was hearing," Spitz said.

Quick Review Nuremberg Laws were at the beginning of WWII, while Nuremberg Trials were at the end. Doctors Trials were separate from the Infamous Nuremberg Trials, but both dealt with Nazi actions against Jews.

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#12 Nuremburg Trials vs. Nuremberg Laws 1.What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Trials? Page What was the result of the Nuremberg Trials? Page YOUR OPINION - Should military officials be held legally responsible for their actions if they were following their superior officers orders? 4.What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Laws? reading 5.What was the result of the Nuremberg Laws? Reading 6.Select 3 different sentences from Article 5 of the Nuremberg Laws. Explain what each means (Use the Handout Reading “The Centerpiece of Nazi Racial Legislation: The Nuremberg Laws” – every other person has this reading…help each other out)