An examination of the historic Nazi trials at Nuremberg.An examination of the historic Nazi trials at Nuremberg.An examination of the historic Nazi trials at Nuremberg.
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Francis Biddle
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François de Menthon
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Henri Donnedieu de Vabres
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Karl Dönitz
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Robert Falco
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Hans Frank
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Wilhelm Frick
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Hans Fritzsche
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Walther Funk
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Hermann Göring
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Rudolf Hess
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Adolf Hitler
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Robert Jackson
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And Justice for None
This is a difficult video to review since some readers will confuse a condemnation of the Nuremberg Trials as an endorsement of Naziism. I will say at the outset that my bonafides in anti-Naziism are as good as any decent American's, so there! Let me now say that my reason for giving this documentary a bad rating is because it slavishly follows the standard line about how these trials were some kind of marker post towards ushering in a more just world--kind of like the United Nations and other post-war Utopian endeavors. But consider the following: 1) the Soviet main judge, Iona Niktchenko, presided over some of the most infamous Stalinist show trials during the 1930's. 2) The Soviet Union (as must have been known by many high ranking Americans and British) was guilty of at least as great atrocities (the charge of crimes against humanity) as the Nazis--including persecution of Jews. 3) The charge that Germany embarked on a "war of aggression" was true also of the Soviet Union who shared with the Nazis the spoils of the invasion of Poland in 1939 and who attacked Finland--an act of pure conquest. The Bolshevik regime also gobbled up many surrounding countries including the Baltic States. 4) A number of important Americans--including Francis Biddle--considered the trial as little more than "victor's justice". Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone considered the conduct of the trials to be a mere pretense for a court of common law and was skeptical of Robert Jackson's sanctimonious bloviations; which, by the way, almost resulted in the undoing of the Allies case as it was clear that in detailed questioning Jackson was no match for Goering. 5) It has led to the continuing mischief of the accusation of war crimes which is being applied by some to such as former President Bush. The pertinence of these points to this documentary is that it did not raise a single one of them; yet they have been part of the debate surrounding the trials since they ended. It is yet another example of the lazy journalism that is so characteristic of the modern era.
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- May 7, 2013
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