Editing Subsequent Nuremberg trials (section)

==Background==
The Allies had initially planned to convene several international trials for war crimes at the International Military Tribunal, but failed because the Allies could not agree upon the proper legal management and disposition of military and civilian war criminals; however, the Control Council Law No. 10 (20 December 1945) of the [[Allied Control Council]] empowered the military authorities of every occupation zone in Germany to place on trial people and soldiers suspected of being war criminals. Based on this law, the U.S. authorities proceeded after the end of the initial Nuremberg Trial against the major war criminals to hold another twelve trials in Nuremberg. The judges in all these trials were American, and so were the prosecutors; the chief of counsel for the prosecution was Brigadier General [[Telford Taylor]]. In the other occupation zones, similar trials took place.<ref name="Heller">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ALHAwFfy44C&q=%22a+brief+synopsis+of+those+trials%22 | title=The Trials. Introduction: the indictments, biographical information, and the verdicts | publisher=Oxford University Press | work=The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law | date=2011 | access-date=10 January 2015 | author=[[Kevin Jon Heller]] | pages=85–| isbn=9780199554317 }}</ref>