Editing Nuremberg trials (section)

===French prosecution===
From 17 January to 7 February 1946, France presented its charges and supporting evidence.{{sfn|Gemählich|2019|loc=paragraph 15}} In contrast to the other prosecution teams, the French prosecution delved into Germany's development in the nineteenth century, arguing that it had diverged from the West due to [[pan-Germanism]] and imperialism. They argued that Nazi ideology, which derived from these earlier ideas, was the ''[[mens rea]]''—criminal intent—of the crimes on trial.{{sfn|Priemel|2016|pp=110–111}} The French prosecutors, more than their British or American counterparts, emphasized the complicity of many Germans;{{sfn|Gemählich|2019|loc=paragraph 16}}{{sfn|Priemel|2016|p=111}} they barely mentioned the charge of aggressive war and instead focused on forced labor, economic plunder, and massacres.{{sfn|Gemählich|2019|loc=paragraph 17}}{{sfn|Priemel|2016|p=115}}  Prosecutor [[Edgar Faure]] grouped together various German policies, such as the German annexation of [[Alsace–Lorraine]], under the label of [[Germanization]], which he argued was a crime against humanity.{{sfn|Gemählich|2019|loc=paragraph 18}} Unlike the British and American prosecution strategies, which focused on using German documents to make their cases, the French prosecutors took the perspective of the victims, submitting postwar police reports.{{sfn|Gemählich|2019|loc=paragraphs 20–21}}{{sfn|Priemel|2016|p=119}} Eleven witnesses, including victims of Nazi persecution, were called; resistance fighter and [[Auschwitz]] survivor [[Marie Claude Vaillant-Couturier]] testified about crimes she had witnessed.{{sfn|Douglas|2001|p=70}}{{sfn|Gemählich|2019|loc=paragraphs 20–21}} The French charges of war crimes were accepted by the tribunal, except for the execution of hostages.{{sfn|Gemählich|2019|loc=paragraphs 17–18}} Due to the narrow definition of crimes against humanity in the charter, the only part of the Germanization charges accepted by the judges was the [[The Holocaust in France|deportation of Jews from France]] and other parts of Western Europe.{{sfn|Gemählich|2019|loc=paragraph 18}}