Nuremberg marked the first occasion where terms such as ‘war crimes’ and ‘crimes against humanity’ entered the legal lexicon. Rather than having a morbid fascination with what was unquestionably one of the most horrific and terrible regimes in modern history, I am looking to learn a little bit more about how the world’s current attitude to post-war closure was formed. Certainly the execution of Saddam Hussein and the imprisonment of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo have aroused furious debate and it seems that the world is still not 100% comfortable with the moral concepts surrounding  ‘the victor writes history’ but is generally accepting of the fact that this is so.

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