The Tribunal is celebrated for establishing that " c rimes against international law are committed by men , not by abstract entities , and only by punishing individuals who commit such crimes can the provisions of international law be enforced . " The creation of the IMT was followed by trials of lesser Nazi officials and the trials of Nazi doctors , who performed experiments on people in prison camps . It served as the model for the International Military Tribunal for the Far East which tried Japanese officials for crimes against peace and against humanity . It also served as the model for the Eichmann trial and for present-day courts at The Hague , for trying crimes committed during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s , and at Arusha , for trying the people responsible for the genocide in Rwanda
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