Eighty years ago, on 20 November, 1945, the historic trials of many leaders of the Nazi Third Reich began in Nuremberg, Germany, just months after the end of WWII. The exceptional procedure laid the foundations of a new international legal model to prosecute crimes against humanity.
The four victorious Allied powers of World War II did not opt for summary justice, but instead created an International Military Tribunal (IMT) to judge Nazi criminals.
