The Nuremberg Trials, its background and why interpretation was fundamental to its unfoldingOn 8 August 1945, just three months after the victory of the Allied forces over the Nazi Germany, the four major victorious powers (Great Britain, the United States of America, the Soviet Union and France) signed the “London Agreement”. This agreement led to the creation of an International Military Tribunal, which was intended to try and convict German war criminals (1). The choice of location was highly symbolic since Nuremberg had been, until recently, the pride of Nazism, the very city where the Nazi Party held its congresses and, above all, where Hitler had promulgated the "Nuremberg Laws" in 1935. ” which served as the backbone of the racist ideology of the Reich (2). The city was now reduced to ruins and ashes. A series of trials took place in Nuremberg, but the first and most important one lasted from 20 November 1945 to 1 October 1946, it lasted over 402 hearings and 22 of the most influential men of Nazism were tried on 4 different charges:1. Participation in a common plan or criminal association aimed at committing a crime against peace2. Plan, initiate and conduct wars of aggression and other crimes against peace3. War crimes4. Crimes against humanity (3). It was now public knowledge that the defendants, considered "major war criminals" due to the positions they held, had been responsible for death and destruction throughout Europe, as well as having enslaved and exterminated more than 10 million men, women and children off the battlefield. As such, public opinion was incredibly prejudiced against them and many believed that these men should have been executed without trial, including W. Churchill himself who would have t...... middle of paper .... ..berg /lang/2#authors_bio10.http://www.erudit.org/revue/meta/2004/v/n3/009380ar.html11. http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/translation/12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=564W493M7eU13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvY_1bMAZWY14. http://aiic.net/page/983/the-nuremberg-trial/lang/115.http://www.uscourts.gov/Multimedia/Videos.aspx?video_url=http://www.uscourts.gov/ video/source/News/nuremberg_low.f4v&video_image=/uscourts/video/News/jn_20100923_preview.jpg&video_id=2010092316. Gaiba, F. 1998. The origins of simulaneous interpretation: the Nuremberg trials. University of Ottawa Press.17. http://aiic.net/page/6625/early-history-of-simultaneous-interpretation-equipment/lang/118. http://www.erudit.org/revue/meta/2004/v/n3/009380ar.html18. http://aiic.net/page/1665/lunch-with-a-legend/lang/119. http://uk-ireland.aiic.net/ViewPage.cfm/page238.htm