Outcome of Martin Bormann's Trials

The world had never seen something like the Nuremberg Trials before. There was no model of what they should do to prosecute these criminals. The Allies met in London to create a legal standard of how to indict and charge any person who commits a war crime, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity(1). They came to the conclusion to create the International Military Tribunal, which is made up of judges from the four Allied countries, Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States. The trials would take place in Nuremberg, Germany, which was one of the Nazi movements most sacred places.

Nazi leader, Martin Bormann, was officially tried and convicted of war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity. Twenty-two Nazi's were tried during the Nuremberg Trials. Nineteen were convicted, three were acquitted, twelve were sentenced to death, seven were sent to prison, but Martin Bormann was the only person to be tried in absentia(2). Martin Bormann was tried in absentia as a symbolic way of putting the Nazi's to rest. It was the Allies way of telling the world that they would not stop until every Nazi was put away. Even though he was not present when he was tried, it helped heal the world after the outcome of World War II and the Holocaust.

Outcome of Martin Bormann's Trials