Base your answers to Questions 26-27 on the passage and on your knowledge of social studies: The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. 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. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay [stop] the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason... Source: Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson, November 21, 1945, Nuremberg 26. What was the purpose of the Nuremberg trials? 1) To punish Germany for violating the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and starting another global conflict 2) To hold Nazi officials accountable for their part in the war and the crimes against Jewish Europeans in the Holocaust 3) To avenge the deaths of American soldiers during the Bataan Death March 4) To identify the causes of World War II in order to avoid future international conflicts. 27. In this excerpt, Chief Prosecutor Jackson maintains that the guiding principle of the Nuremberg trials will be the 1) Payment of reparations 2) Denial of responsibility 3) Celebration of victory 4) Judgment of law
The correct answer for question 26 is 2) To hold Nazi officials accountable for their part in the war and the crimes against Jewish Europeans in the Holocaust.
The correct answer for question 27 is 4) Judgment of law.