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Nuremberg Trials' legacy re-echoes 60 years later [audio 4min]

On Sept. 28, 1946, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg was getting ready to hand down its judgments against German war criminals. Commentator Mark Drumbl says that Nuremberg began 60 years of international genocide prosecutions -- but that the prosecutions have not achieved Nuremberg's most important goal, to keep similar events from happening. Mark Drumbl is a professor of law at Washington and Lee University and the author of the forthcoming book Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law.
Read entire article at NPR "All Things Considered"