Question

The International War Tribunal was set up in?
(a) Vienna
(b) Munich
(c) Nuremberg
(d) Auschwitz

Answer 1

Hint: The trials of leading German officials before the International Military Tribunal are the best known of the postwar war crimes trial. It investigates, and where warranted, tries individuals charged with the crimes of concern of the International community.

Complete Answer:
1. At the end of the war, an International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg was set up to prosecute Nazi war criminals for committing crimes against Peace and Humanity.
Germany conducted the war, especially those actions which later to be called crimes against humanity, rest serious moral and ethical questions and invited world condemnation.
Under the shadow of the Second World war, Nazi’s had waged a genocidal war, killing more than 6 million Jews, 2,00,000 Gypsies, 1 million polish civilians
2. To improve the Aryan race even many Aryans who were considered mentally and physically disabled were also killed
3. Nazi devised unprecedented means of killing people, that is by gassing them in various killing centers.
4. The Nuremberg tribunal sentenced only eleven leading Nazis to death. Many others were sentenced to life.
5. The retribution did come, and yet the punishment of the Nazis was far short of the brutality and extent of their crimes.
 6. Everyone comes to feel that the rise of Nazi, Germany could be partly traced back to the German experience at the end of the First World War.

So, the correct answer is Option

Note: The Soviet Union, The Union kingdom, and The United States set up the international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, to prosecute and punish the major war criminals of the European axis. Article 8 defines war crimes that are crimes within the jurisdiction of the court.