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The '''Nuremberg Trials''' were a series of 13 trials held in [[Nuremburg]], [[Germany]] from 1945-1949. They tried German [[Nazi]] leaders, and accused them of deliberately starting an aggressive war ([[World War II]]), along with crimes against humanity, including mass murder and enslavement. These trials were a new development in international law. War criminals have been tried one way or another ever since war began. But at Nuremberg, for the first time, the leaders of a government were held on trial for starting an aggressive war.

The '''Nuremberg Trials''' were a series of 13 trials held in [[Nuremberg]], [[Germany]] from 1945-1949. They tried German [[Nazi]] leaders, and accused them of deliberately starting an aggressive war ([[World War II]]), along with crimes against humanity, including mass murder and enslavement. These trials were a new development in international law. War criminals have been tried one way or another ever since war began. But at Nuremberg, for the first time, the leaders of a government were held on trial for starting an aggressive war.

The U.S. Army's [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) Central European Section of the Research and Analysis Branch prepared a 91-page report entitled ''Persecution of the Christian Churches'' <ref>R&A Report 3114.4 (draft for war crimes staff, dated 6th July 1945)</ref> which contributed to the recognition that the [[Christian]] Churches were amongst the early victims of Nazi war criminality.  The report describes "Nazi purposes, policies and methods of persecution of the Christian Churches in Germany and occupied Europe."  Throughout the period of National Socialist rule, the Nazis employed a combination of ‘lawful’ and criminal devices to persecute the Churches in a cynically opportunistic manner. The various Christian Churches were systematically cut off from effective communication with the people. They were confined as far as possible to the performance of narrowly religious functions accompanied partly by legal and partly by illegal and terroristic means.

The U.S. Army's [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) Central European Section of the Research and Analysis Branch prepared a 91-page report entitled ''Persecution of the Christian Churches'' <ref>R&A Report 3114.4 (draft for war crimes staff, dated 6th July 1945)</ref> which contributed to the recognition that the [[Christian]] Churches were amongst the early victims of Nazi war criminality.  The report describes "Nazi purposes, policies and methods of persecution of the Christian Churches in Germany and occupied Europe."  Throughout the period of National Socialist rule, the Nazis employed a combination of ‘lawful’ and criminal devices to persecute the Churches in a cynically opportunistic manner. The various Christian Churches were systematically cut off from effective communication with the people. They were confined as far as possible to the performance of narrowly religious functions accompanied partly by legal and partly by illegal and terroristic means.