ABSTRACT
The Nuremberg trials were a cardinal source of information about the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the story of the planned mass murder of populations of children; old people; men and women; of Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs; of prisoners of war; of soldiers and civilians killed not in the heat of combat but in convoys or actions over a period of years as a policy, a duty to the race. The core of the Holocaust was the single-minded effort by the Nazi organization to round up all of the Jews of Europe and to deport them to the forced labor and/or death camps. The Holocaust resulted in the deaths of almost two-thirds of the European Jews and one-third of the Jews of the world. The Jewish-centered nature of the Holocaust, despite the millions of other victims—Gypsies, Russian Prisoners of war, gays, political enemies, enslaved workers—has moral implications for humanity.
