The Nuremberg Trials were held …show more content…
The common definition in the minds of the common population, is essentially an idiom that dates back to the mid-16th century; tip for tap. If you do something wrong, karma will come back and punish you for it. The trials took on the responsibility of dishing out karma to the criminals, through fair trials and sentencing based on the depth of the crime. If the trials had severely adhered to ‘tip for tap’, most of the criminals arrested would have been executed. However, a massacre of all those involved was not part of the regime of the Allies, as their motives far exceeded the basic ‘eye for an eye’. If they had just executed the whole lot of criminals, they would be no better than Hitler, or any other Nazi, or Nazi supporter- because cold-hearted murder was the philosophy that the Allies were trying to dissuade from the population. These trials sent a major signal to the population regarding the new world views on racism and discrimination, and any discrepancies in sentencing could have possibly dangerous outcomes. Ergo, the Allies had to take both justice, and public reaction to sentencing, as well as many other underlying purposes into account, when sentencing the