ABSTRACT
The great war-crimes trials of 1945-1946 held in Nuremberg, Germany, marked the ultimate triumph of a worldwide coalition over one of history's most evil regimes. A simultaneous examination of the enormous extent and profound depth of these purges and of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal's proceedings should allow people to gain some insight into this crucial period in European history. The countries formerly within Hitler's Europe did not wait for the precedent shown by the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal to engage in retribution. The list of non-German Europeans executed for treason, collaboration, and war crimes included thousands of generals, police chiefs, city mayors, politicians, and journalists. In Budapest the main people's court held its session at the end of January 1945, while Soviet and Romanian troops, on the one side, and German and Hungarian troops, on the other, were clashing in the city. The London Agreement of August 8, 1945, established the Nuremberg Tribunal and outlined its jurisdiction.
