How many people were killed in World War II?
The true number of people killed in World War II remains unknown. It is believed that up to 68 million lives were lost. The Soviet Union suffered the most of these causalities, where more than 25 million lost their lives. What role did the city of Nuremberg play in the aftermath of World War II? At the meetings in Tehran (Iran, 1943), Yalta (now in the Ukraine, 1945) and Potsdam (Germany, 1945), the USA, USSR and Britain agreed on the format to punish those responsible for war crimes during World War II. The Nuremberg trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in World War II and the Holocaust. The trials were held in the German city of Nuremberg from 1945 to 1949 at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. The first and most famous of these trials was the trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal or IMT, which tried 24 of the most important captured (or still believed to be alive) leaders of Nazi Germany. It was held from November 20,
