<P> Some 200 German war crimes defendants were tried at Nuremberg, and 1,600 others were tried under the traditional channels of military justice . The legal basis for the jurisdiction of the court was that defined by the Instrument of Surrender of Germany . Political authority for Germany had been transferred to the Allied Control Council which, having sovereign power over Germany, could choose to punish violations of international law and the laws of war . Because the court was limited to violations of the laws of war, it did not have jurisdiction over crimes that took place before the outbreak of war on 1 September 1939 . </P> <P> Leipzig and Luxembourg were briefly considered as the location for the trial . The Soviet Union had wanted the trials to take place in Berlin, as the capital city of the' fascist conspirators', but Nuremberg was chosen as the site for two reasons, with the first one having been the decisive factor: </P> <Ol> <Li> The Palace of Justice was spacious and largely undamaged (one of the few buildings that had remained largely intact through extensive Allied bombing of Germany), and a large prison was also part of the complex . </Li> <Li> Nuremberg was considered the ceremonial birthplace of the Nazi Party . It had hosted the Party's annual propaganda rallies and the Reichstag session that passed the Nuremberg Laws . Thus it was considered a fitting place to mark the Party's symbolic demise . </Li> </Ol> <Li> The Palace of Justice was spacious and largely undamaged (one of the few buildings that had remained largely intact through extensive Allied bombing of Germany), and a large prison was also part of the complex . </Li>

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