Nuremberg Ministries Trial judgment

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The Nuremberg Ministries Trial judgment is the final verdict and legal reasoning issued by a U.S. military tribunal in 1949 against high-ranking officials of Nazi Germany’s Foreign Office and other ministries for their roles in planning and executing aggressive war and crimes against humanity.

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instanceOf judgment
legal document
alsoKnownAs Judgment in United States of America vs. Ernst von Weizsäcker et al. NERFINISHED
Judgment in the Ministries Case NERFINISHED
appliesStatute Control Council Law No. 10 NERFINISHED
appliesToJurisdiction occupied Germany
archivesAt National Archives and Records Administration NERFINISHED
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum NERFINISHED
basedOn Charter of the International Military Tribunal NERFINISHED
Control Council Law No. 10 NERFINISHED
chronologicallyFollows International Military Tribunal judgment NERFINISHED
concerns German Foreign Office NERFINISHED
Nazi Germany NERFINISHED
Reich ministries of Nazi Germany NERFINISHED
deportation of civilian populations
diplomatic support for Nazi aggression
high-ranking German civil servants
occupation policies in Europe
persecution of Jews
planning and waging aggressive war
slave labor policies
countryOfJurisdiction United States of America NERFINISHED
court United States Military Tribunal IV NERFINISHED
date 1949
follows Nuremberg Doctors Trial judgment NERFINISHED
Nuremberg Justice Trial judgment NERFINISHED
hasPart conclusions of law
findings of fact
sentencing section
separate opinions
influenced development of customary international law on crimes against humanity
doctrine of ministerial responsibility in international law
post-war international criminal law
influencedBy International Military Tribunal jurisprudence NERFINISHED
language English
legalFinding aggressive war as an international crime
criminality of participation in policy-making for aggressive war
individual criminal responsibility of state officials
limitations on the defense of act of state
limitations on the defense of necessity
limitations on the defense of superior orders
persecution on political, racial, and religious grounds as crimes against humanity
legalSubject conspiracy to commit crimes against peace
crimes against humanity
crimes against peace
war crimes
locationOfEvent Palace of Justice, Nuremberg NERFINISHED
partOf Nuremberg Military Tribunals NERFINISHED
Nuremberg Ministries Trial NERFINISHED
Subsequent Nuremberg Trials NERFINISHED
placeOfPublication Nuremberg NERFINISHED

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United States of America vs. Ernst von Weizsäcker, et al. subjectOf Nuremberg Ministries Trial judgment