The two most famous trials in history: Nuremberg and Tokyo

On August 8, 1945, after the war was over, the United States, the United Kingdom, the USSR, and the Provisional Government of the French Republic signed a treaty creating and fixing the statute of the international military tribunal “competent to try and punish all persons who, acting on behalf of the European countries of the Axis, will have committed war crimes. It is on the basis of this treaty that from November 20, 1945, to October 1, 1946, a lawsuit was brought by the Allied powers against twenty-four of the leading political and military leaders of the Third Reich and against seven Nazi organizations (including elite SS unit and the Gestapo) during the Nuremberg Trial. The trial of the twenty-eight senior Japanese officers before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known as the “Tokyo Trial”, was the second attempt after Nuremberg at an international response to the crimes committed during World War II. Created on January 19, 1946, on MacArthur’s orders the tribunal tried crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed by Japanese leaders between January 1, 1928, to September 1, 1945.The book analyses the trial.