WWII Nuremburg Trials and Legacy of WWII

•Economic Impact of War

•Changes for women and minorities

•Treaties

•Nuremburg

•Pgs. 24-25

• Technology- radar, sonar,

antibiotics, jet & rocket
engines developed during
WWII

• Nuremberg Trials- with

realization of Nazi
brutality former Nazi
leaders put on trial for war
crimes
– “crimes against humanity”
– Claimed to be following

orders

– Trial determined people

are responsible for own
actions

 Statement from one of the US prosecutors at the military trials at

Nuremberg

 “Germany became one vast torture chamber. Cries of its victims

were heard round the world and brought shudders to civilized
people. I am one who received most atrocity tales with suspicion
and doubt. But the proof here will be so overwhelming that I
predict these defendants will only deny personal responsibility.
The elements of the German population which were both decent
and courageous were [reduced to nothing]. Those which were
decent but weak were intimidated. The Nazis not only silenced
discordant voices, they practiced the [leadership principle]
which centralized control of the Party over the lives and
thoughts of the German people. This German State
incomprehensible to my people [the United States public] ….

 The prosecutor says these Nazi leaders did not deserve mercy.

Would you have agreed? Explain you answer.

 World-Wide Casualties*

 Battle Deaths -

15,000,000

 Battle Wounded - 25,000,000
 Civilian Deaths - 45,000,000

 *World-wide casualty estimates vary widely in several sources. The

number of civilian deaths in China alone might well be more than
50,000,000.

 Source: National WWII Museum -

http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-
students/ww2-history/ww2-by-the-numbers/world-wide-deaths.html

 Level 1:
• Visuals:

• Little man standing on an

island surrounded by
beasts

• Lollipops
• Swastikas
• Faces on beasts are

mean, sly, toothy

• Words:

• “Remember…One More

Lollypop, and Then You
All Go Home!”

• “The Appeaser” is used to

identify the small man

 Level 3

A. The “appeaser” is giving lollipops to

the beasts. He is giving them a
treat. They swarm around him with
sly grins and toothy faces, but he
still thinks he can control them.

B. The “appeaser” clarifies the

childlike innocence of the man as
he deals with the beast.

C. The cartoon sends the message

that appeasing Hitler is just going
to cause more problems. He will
never have enough.

D. Isolationists would disapprove of

the cartoon. Those supporting
U.S. involvement in WWII would
support the cartoon.