#OTD in #Nuremberg, February 2, 1946 — Trial Day 49 — As French counsel for the prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials, Edgar Faure began presenting the sequence of measures that reshaped Luxembourg under German rule. He traced how the country’s sovereignty was steadily dismantled: political parties were banned under the ordinances of August and October 1940, the Chamber of Deputies and State Council were dissolved, and even courtroom formulas changed from invoking the Grand Duke to the words “in t

At the Nuremberg Trials, the United States sought to convict Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz for a wartime order that appeared deeply ruthless: German forces were instructed not to rescue Allied survivors at sea. The accusation was tied to the principle that leaving shipwrecked sailors to die violated the laws and customs of war. But the charge became far more complicated. Evidence showed the policy was issued after a major incident in which U.S. aircraft attacked German submarines while they were att