IMPORTANT!!Let there be no misunderstanding about the charge of persecuting Jews. . . . It is my purpose to show a plan and design, to which all Nazis were fanatically committed, to annihilate all Jewish people. These crimes were organized and promoted by the Party leadership, executed and protected by the Nazi officials, as we shall convince you by written orders of the Secret State Police itself.
The persecution of the Jews was a continuous and deliberate policy. It was a policy directed against other nations as well as against the Jews themselves. Anti-Semitism was promoted to divide and embitter the democratic peoples and to soften their resistance to the Nazi aggression.
–Robert Jackson,
1945
This passage from Jackson’s opening remarks focuses on
the crime of genocide.
the crime of enslavement.
the importance of fair trials.
the importance of freedom of religion.