As evident in the "Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 1: Charter of International Military Tribunal," foreign nations had used UN conventions to step into other countries affairs if certain rights were violated. Officers of the Nazi regime were tried in an international tribunal unlike any event before. They were tried not only for war crimes, but also for their crimes against humanity, which included the mass extermination of millions of European Jews. Paul G. Lauren explains in the Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen, that the essential language used in formulating the UN Charter encouraged many nations and individuals to take action against known violators of human rights. The Nuremberg trials were one of the most prominent...

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