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BATTLE OF THE BULGE

Finish the Battlefield Detectives: Battle of the Bulge
Hitlers last offensive push of World War II

FALL OF BERLIN
As the Allies were marching in onto
Berlin, the Nazi Rgime begins to
crumble
Much of the German forces had either
been killed or surrendered to the
oncoming Allied forces
Most of the surviving army was the
elderly and the Hitler youth

THE RED ARMY ARRIVES

The Russians were the
Allied army who
officially took Berlin
This was after Stalin
made the taking of
Berlin the proximate
goal
This would become a race
between Zhukov and Konev

Russians sustained
high casualties in
their reckless attacks
straight for Berlin

HITLER COMMITS SUICIDE

With the Soviets closing in Hitlers guard warned him that he
needed to escape Berlin while he still could.
Instead of escaping to Berchtesgarden, Hitler and his new wife,
Eva, killed themselves in Hitlers personal bunker

TERRORS FROM THE EAST

The Red Army repays the

German public with the
atrocities that the Soviets
had suffered during
Barbarossa under the German
Army
Many stories of rape and
massacres of entire towns
were common during the
advance into Germany

NUREMBERG TRIALS
After the War, the Germans of all ranks, were tried for war
crimes
Many of the terms and ideas we use today cover a Just War
and the ideas of appropriate actions to take during conflict

THE CHARGES
Conspiracy

-Leaders, organizations, instigators, and accomplices in the formulation or

execution of a common plan, or conspiracy to commit any of the following crimes are responsible for all
acts performed by any persons in execution of such a plan

Crimes Against Peace

-namely, planning, preparation, initiation or waging

of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or

participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing

War Crimes

-namely, violations of the laws or customs of war. Such violations shall include,

but not be limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave labor or for any other purpose of
civilian 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-namely, murder, extermination, enslavement,

deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war;
or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime
within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law or the country where
perpetrated. Quoted inFacing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior(Brookline, 1994),
423

GUILT AND SENTENCES

Germans received anywhere from a pardon to being executed
Here is a list of some of the major players
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/
nurembg/NuremJudgement.htm