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Question 18 SS.912.A.6.7 Read the Document Below and Answer the Question That Follows: May It Please Your Honors: ...The Wrongs Which

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Question 18 SS.912.A.6.7 Read the document below and answer the question that follows: May it please Your Honors: ...The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated __ In the prisoners' dock sit twenty-odd broken men ...Merely as individuals their fate is of little consequence to the world.What makes this inquest significant is that these prisoners represent sinister influences that will lurk in the world long after their bodies have returned to dust.We will show them to be living symbols of racial hatreds, of terrorism and violence, and of the arrogance and cruelty of power... Source: Robert H. Jackson Chief of Counsel for the United States. Nuremberg.Germany. Nov. 21,1945 NOTE-Raise your hand and ask if you unsure what any of the following words/phrases from the document mean: Your Honors. condemn, calculated, malignant, inquest sinister, arrogance. The charges described in the document were most likely caused by the prisoners' involvement in which event? the Nazi bombing of civilian cities in Great Britain the Holocaust that occurred In Nazi-occupied Europe the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Naval Base the Japanese treatment of captured American POWS 10

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The charges described in the document were most likely caused by the prisoners' involvement in the Holocaust that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe.