Principle I
“Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefore and liable to punishment.”
Principle II
“The fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for an act which constitutes a crime under international law does not relieve the person who committed the act from responsibility under international law.”
Principle III
“The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law.”
Principle IV
Main article: Superior orders
“The fact that a person acted under the order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law provided a moral choice be in fact possible to him.”
This principle could be paraphrased as follows: “It is not an acceptable excuse to say ‘I was just following my superior’s orders.’”
Previous to the time of the Nuremberg Trials, this excuse was known in common parlance as “Superior Orders.” After the prominent, high- profile event of the Nuremberg Trials, that excuse is now referred to by many as the “Nuremberg Defense.” In recent times, a third term, “lawful orders” has become common parlance for some people. All three terms are in use today, and they all have slightly different nuances of meaning, depending on the context in which they are used.
Nuremberg Principle IV is legally supported by the jurisprudence found in individual articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which deal indirectly with conscientious objection. It is also supported by the principles found in paragraph 171 of the Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status which was issued by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Those principles deal with the conditions under which conscientious objectors can apply for refugee status in another country if they face persecution in their own country for refusing to participate in an illegal war.
Principle V
“Any person charged with a crime under international law has the right to a fair trial on the facts and law.”
Principle VI
“The crimes from now on set out are punishable as crimes under international law:
Crimes against peace:
Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances; participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).
War crimes:
Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave labor or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory; murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the Seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.
Crimes against humanity:
Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhumane acts done against any civilian population, or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds, when such acts are done, or such persecutions are carried on in the execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime.”
Principle VII“Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity as outlined in Principle VI is a crime under international law.” (Nuremberg_principles, 1945)
The above Nuremberg Trials was the bases for convinced the Nazi Germany Officers for their part in the conspiracy to commit war crimes. Likewise the Soviet Union -Russian leaders need to judge according to the same standards of the International law and the moral code. According to the Spirit of the Natural Law. Nothing more, nothing less, that is the Spirit of true justice.
FINLAND UNDER PERSECUTION
The following text is from The Nemesis Book 2018.
“There is much evidence to prove that the Allied forces cowered before the Soviet Union leaders. Moreover, given his powers to do as he and the Nemesis wished on the Baltic States and The war-responsibility trials in Finland 1945,1946.
(Encyclopedia, War-responsibility trials in Finland, 1945)
The most obvious follow up the question in regard to the War-responsibility trials in Finland are these:
- Where were the War-responsibility trials of Soviet Union Russian 1939-1940 held?
- Where were the War-responsibility trials of Poland’s Katyn Forest massacre held?
Where and when were they held?
- When will the United States and England 1941-1945 war-responsibility trials be held?
The Western Alliance have often said they were the principled people? And that they are pretentiously strutting on a hypocritical, double standard moral high ground.
That is the essence that they are referring to in the International War Crime Court of Nuremberg. They continue to arrest the Nazi Germany war criminals from 1939 – 1945. They arrest the Nazi German officers and take them out of the aged people homes at the old age over 80 to 90’s. On what basis are the old and frail being arrested?
However, their judgment is one-sided and biased as the drunken despots were biased in Berlin 1945,1946. Russian soldiers are raping the citizen women of Berlin, approved by their officers. (Rape, 1945).
In the following chapter is the Axis personnel indicted for war crimes. The following is a list of War Crime Trials and the people suspected of committing war crimes on behalf of Nazi Germany or any of the Axis.”
THE NEMESIS BOOK 2018