Although Nuremberg featured countless hypocrisies and rule-of-law violations, it nonetheless left a large imprint on international law by developing the principle of individual criminal accountability for state acts. At Nuremberg, and now in the mission statements and rules governing institutions from Human Rights Watch to the International Criminal Court, the injustice wrought by states was depoliticized and repackaged as the responsibility of specific people who had done wrong or authorized others to do wrong. The tribunal did not invent this idea, but it was the first to successfully
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