Sixty years ago, Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg (Germany) Palace of Justice saw a new kind of trial, which echoes to this day in places as varied as Bosnia, Rwanda or Iraq. The Nuremberg proceedings broke new ground in holding government leaders responsible for their actions and established new offenses, including waging a war of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity. "Nuremberg is considered to be the birthplace of a new international law," said Hans Hesselmann, a Nuremberg historian.
November 21, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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In Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice in Nuremburg, Germany, a 62-year-old homeopathic healer is on trial for the death of a patient — an ordinary case on an ordinary day in a Germany rebuilt from the wreckage of World War II as a free society built on humane law.
But the setting is anything but ordinary.
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