Conclusion
During the trials, the Holocaust victims reported the crimes against humanity committed by the Nazi party. Avrom Sutzkever was one of the many victims; he stated that the military killed his newborn at a clinic and also described the homicide of “...60,000 Jews at Ponary” (108). The victims spoke out against the members of the Nazi party, including Martin Bormann, who was not present during the trials but was still convicted of war crimes (108). Moreover, the Nuremberg trials revealed Bormann, along with rest of the party’s heinous acts of violence to bring closure for the victims of the Holocaust. Martin Bormann was the right hand man to Hitler during his reign. Bormann is responsible for many war crimes and crimes against humanity that were addressed during the Nuremberg Trials. He was tried in absentia for his involvement in Nazi criminal acts against the Jews, the Church, and the German people. His verdict reached that he would be sentenced by execution, even though he was actually dead.
The historical significance of the Nuremberg Trials is mainly based on the fact that Jewish people were being persecuted by Hitler’s army and that more than millions of innocent people lost their life or their loved ones (124 & 108). Therefore, the trials took place but people were upset with how the trials were handled, since the trials were not handled well. In the future, people are hoping for a well organized trial (131). More importantly, the trials took place because it wanted to bring peace to those who were hurt (132). The Holocaust was a disaster in which Jewish people were treated in the most horrific way possible and because of the genocide, people had to find a new home; they had to start another life in another place (132). Today, researchers continue to argue about the perspectives of the victims during the genocide but no one really discusses about the victim’s story; they discuss about mostly on the criminals (136).