In 1945 , General Dwight D. Eisenhower , Supreme Allied Commander , anticipated that someday an attempt would be made to recharacterize the documentation of Nazi crimes as propaganda and took steps against it : Eisenhower , upon finding the victims of the death camps , ordered all possible photographs to be taken , and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead . He wrote the following to General George Marshall after visiting a German internment camp near Gotha , Germany : The Nuremberg trials took place in Germany after the war in 1945 – 1946 . The stated aim was to dispense justice in retribution for atrocities of the German government . This Allied intention to administer justice post-war was first announced in 1943 in the Declaration on German Atrocities in Occupied Europe and reiterated at the Yalta Conference and at Berlin in 1945 . While the intention was not specifically to preserve the historical record of the Holocaust , some of the core documents required to prosecute the cases were provided to them by the CDJC , and much of the huge trove of archives were then transferred to the CDJC after the trials and became the core of future Holocaust historiography
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