Nurenberg didnt accept I was only acting on orders .
Nuremberg was set up by the 4 victorious nations in WW2, John. The U.S and British and even ze German lawyers said it was a travesty as the Judges came from these victorious nations.
There were loads of legal and procedural difficulties to overcome in setting up the Nuremberg trials. First, there was no precedent for an international trial of war criminals...........I think there were several appeals to the I.C.C. later on behalf of the butchers in the Yougoslav war as a result of America's never accepting the validity of the I.C.C. imposing criminal law on U.S. citizens...
Maybe you know or someone else does, is this soldier to be tried as an international war criminal? The I.C.C. is the International Criminal Court btw...