The law alone will not originate war impossible,or stay killings and other crimes. But the legacy of the Nuremberg trials is the idea of accountabilityOn 20 November 1945, the criminal trial of 23 senior Nazis opened in courtroom 600 of Nuremberg’s Palace of Justice. Hermann Goering, and Albert Speer and Hans Frank were among those in the dock for a variety of horrors,in a case that was cobbled together at remarkable speed.
It was a unique moment, the first time in history that individual leaders of a sovereign nation had found themselves before an international criminal court. The day heralded the promise of a new world constructed on the pillars of justice and law, and a world that seems as far away as ever in the light of the current situation in Syria and the barbaric events in Paris.
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Source: theguardian.com