After Germany’s defeat in WWII, the Nuremberg and later trials were organized primarily for political purposes rather than to dispense impartial justice. Wears War brings to you each week a quote from the many fine men and women who were openly appalled by the trials. All of these people were highly respected and prominent in their field, at least until they spoke out against the trials.
After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation by MacDonogh, Giles.
British Historian Giles MacDonogh:
The hypocrisy of Nuremberg Law alarmed many people. One was the Indian jurist Rahabinode Pal, a judge in the Tokyo trials, who dissented from the judgments, seeing the sentences meted out as retrogressive,
‘a sham employment of legal process for the satisfaction of a thirst for revenge’.
Left: A surviving mother and child in Hiroshima were posed for a victorious display by the American Allies. Right: Two German women & their children were slaughtered with barbaric savagery, their corpses were then lined up for display by the victorious Soviet Allies after General Patton was forcibly halted.
Field Marshal Lord Montgomery also disapproved of the tenor of the trials that
‘have made the waging of unsuccessful war a crime, for which the generals of the defeated side would be tried and then hanged’.
He understood that if the Germans had won the war, he might have been put on trial himself. Shortly after a British Military Court in Hamburg sitting in the aptly named Curio-Haus had condemned Field Marshal Erich von Manstein to 18 years in prison, the Korean War broke out, and the German press was happy to report that the American army was accused of precisely the same atrocities as the field marshal…
The Allies put a brave face on it, but the International Military Tribunal had not been deemed a success and it was put in mothballs. Robert Jackson was ‘thoroughly disenchanted’ with the trials. He had particularly disliked the methods of the Soviets. The Allies had in fact taken stock of the criticisms leveled at the trials. The presence of a Russian judge on the bench (and a general rather than a jurist) had been an embarrassment. It was decided that the Allies should try their own Nazis in their own zones. That way the ideological differences between the Allies would be less immediately obvious. Jackson had recommended to Truman that any more international trials of this nature would have to be held in Berlin. This never happened, of course. Nuremberg would go on, but as a solely American jurisdiction. After the first 11 victims had been dispatched, the cells filled up with new inmates who were to pass before the tribunal.
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Source: MacDonogh, Giles, After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation, New York: Basic Books, 2007, pp. 432, 451.
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Montgomery may also have known (and likely did know) that the propaganda levelled against the Wehrmacht was just that – propaganda. Manstein mentions his “trial” in his memoirs, Lost Victories.
There trials were show trials. As the photos above show, the Allies committed terrible atrocities against civilians, but the indictments at Nuremberg do not apply to the victors. (Per the definition of war crimes from those indictments, the Allies were guilty of war crimes.)
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Fake ‘chimney’ built AFTER the war at Auschwitz by the Soviet occupiers and NO Zyklon B blue stains embedded in the walls of the fake gas-chambers. LOTS of Zyklon B blue stains on the walls in the small clothes-DELOUSING chambers though, done to SAVE all inmates lives of all nationalities from typhus. The thanks they get is lies, lies and more lies. Its high time the Germans demanded reparations from the ALL LIES and stopped all parasitism and their Orwellian total censorship.
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Sadly, the Germans have been demoralized and brainwashed over the past several decades. Thus, it is not likely they will be demanding anything of the sort. In fact, Germany, thanks to the criminal insanity of Merkel, is now being destroyed demographically by mass immigration of non-Germanic peoples.
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There are fortunately some courageous Germans that are fighting the good fight for all ethnic-Europeans, without fear or favor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0tQGUWUa8k
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are there more Germans like this?
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ALL Germans should watch this video linked above by Wakey Wakey. As for the reference above to Giles MacDonogh’s book “After The Reich” I bought and read that book before I bought and read “Germany’s War” by John Wear. I must say that both books are a real education in itself and highly recommended by this old man from the United States.
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