Exactly, Nuremberg was not about Justice as much as was about proving the absolute defeat of Germany and more importantly Nazism as an ideology. Nazism was so downgraded as to become criminal.

Quoted for truth.

I was reading a legal article which mentioned as an example the Nuremburg Trials. Count one was Conspiracy to Wage Aggressive War. The author used this as an example of the kind of pre-ordained guilt and highly propagandarised charge that was endemic in that court. I’m not condoning any of the defendents, nor their actions, and neither was the author. Just that, as the author states, this was hardly legal history’s finest hour. In fact, a lot of the trial was legal nonsense. And a lot of the aspects of the case were illegal, even for the norms of the late 1940’s. As he pointed out, the main charge itself was unique to history and hardly any of the victorious nations would survive that charge themselves!

Under those criteria and charges, I think it pretty obvious what Hitlers fate was to be.