The Charges

  In the end the charges were agreed to:

1)    There were two “Crimes against peace,”
          -first, conspiring to seize power, establishing a criminal state, and preparing to wage wars of aggression.
          -second, the actual conduct of such wars

2)    Committing “war crimes,” including murdering civilians or deporting them to slave labor, “murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war.” Killing hostages, plunder, and “wanton destruction.”

3)    Crimes against humanity, such as “murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhuman acts committed against any civilian population” as well as “persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds.”

Sentences were carried out on October 15-16.

The Allies were the allied nations of England, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States. 

The Allies didn’t want to take action during the war; instead they waited for it to end and collected information to use against them in court.