Presentation of evidence: Map of concentration camps in Europe and photographs from inside the camps during the Nuremberg trials, 1945/6

Article 6 of the Constitution of the International Military Court, before which the Nuremberg Trials were brought, authorized it to try the defendants on three crimes: crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. These war crimes included violation of laws of war, murder, cruel acts, deportation, abuse of civilian population and other crimes that fell under the definition of genocide.