Question

4. What treaties, agreements, or conventions were used to establish legal principles for the trials? Why were they inadequate for these circumstances? 5. In what way did the judgement at Nuremberg clarify the position of the United Nations (UN)?

Answer 1

4. The Nuremberg principles are a set of guidelines for determining what constitutes a war crime.

The states didn’t act immediately. It took until February 1779 for 12 states to approve the document.

5. General Assembly resolution 95 was adopted on 11 December 1946 on the initiative of the United States delegation.