When you hide many of the ones who should have been on trial (SS Officers) that puts the whole affair as being corrupt on that point alone.
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The Nuremberg Trials and the Holocaust
Do the 'war crimes' trials prove extermination?
by Mark Weber A common response to expressions of skepticism about the Holocaust story is to say something like "What about Nuremberg? What about the trials and all the evidence?!" This reaction is understandable because the many postwar "war crimes" trials have given explicit, authoritative judicial legitimacy to the Holocaust extermination story.
By far the most important of these was the great Nuremberg trial of 1945-1946, officially known as the International Military Tribunal (IMT). The governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France put on trial the most prominent surviving German leaders as "Major War Criminals" for various "war crimes," "crimes against peace," and "crimes against humanity." In the words of the Tribunal's Charter, these "Nazi conspirators" carried out their crimes as part of a great "Common Plan or Conspiracy."
In addition, twelve secondary Nuremberg trials (NMT) organized by the US government alone were conducted between 1946 to 1949. Similar trials were also conducted by the British at Lüneburg and Hamburg, and by the United States at Dachau. Since then, many other Holocaust-related trials have been held in West Germany, Israel and the United States, including the highly-publicized trials in Jerusalem of Adolf Eichmann and John Demjanjuk.
Germany's wartime treatment of the Jews figured prominently in the Nuremberg trials. In their condemnation of the defendants, the Allies gave special emphasis to the alleged extermination of six million European Jews. Chief US prosecutor Robert H. Jackson, for example, declared in his opening address to the Tribunal: (note 1)The most savage and numerous crimes planned and committed by the Nazis were those against the Jews ... It is my purpose to show a plan and design, to which all Nazis were fanatically committed, to annihilate all Jewish people.... The avowed purpose was the destruction of the Jewish people as a whole... The conspiracy or common plan to exterminate the Jews was ... methodically and thoroughly pursued... History does not record a crime ever perpetrated against so many victims or one ever carried out with such calculated cruelty.Echoing these words, chief British prosecutor Sir Hartley Shawcross declared in his final address to the Tribunal: (note 2)
There is one group to which the method of annihilation was applied on a scale so immense that it is my duty to refer separately to the evidence. I mean the extermination of the Jews. If there were no other crime against these men [the defendants], this one alone, in which all of them were implicated, would suffice. History holds no parallel to these horrors.How compelling was the evidence presented at Nuremberg to substantiate such damning words? How did the defendants respond to the charges?
While much of the specific testimony and documentation presented in these trials has been dealt with in other Journal articles, here we take a closer look at the general trustworthiness of the evidence cited at Nuremberg and elsewhere for the Holocaust extermination story. This chapter also focuses on the basic character of these trials, which have played such an important role in "legitimizing" the Holocaust story.
Political justice
The Nuremberg enterprise violated ancient and fundamental principles of justice. The victorious Allies acted as prosecutor, judge and executioner of the German leaders. The charges were created especially for the occasion, and were applied only to the vanquished. (note 3) Defeated, starving, prostrate Germany was, however, in no position to oppose whatever the Allied occupation powers demanded.
As even some leading Allied figures privately acknowledged at the time, the Nuremberg trials were organized not to dispense impartial justice, but for political purposes. Sir Norman Birkett, British alternate judge at the Nuremberg Tribunal, explained in a private letter in April 1946 that "the trial is only in form a judicial process and its main importance is political." (note 4)
Robert Jackson, the chief US prosecutor and a former US Attorney General, declared that the Nuremberg Tribunal "is a continuation of the war effort of the Allied nations" against Germany. He added that the Tribunal "is not bound by the procedural and substantive refinements of our respective judicial or constitutional system ..." (note 5)
The Nuremberg Trials (part 1)
"Robert Jackson, the chief US prosecutor and a former US Attorney General, declared that the Nuremberg Tribunal "is a continuation of the war effort of the Allied nations" against Germany. He added that the Tribunal "is not bound by the procedural and substantive refinements of our respective judicial or constitutional system ."
Rebuttals?Links not candy-ass opinions
At present it is more of why did so many SS troops get a pay increase after they were saved from certain execution. Who was it that had sympathy for the SS after the extent of the 'crimes' were made known. How many actually paid with their lifes, surprisoingly few considering the magnitude of the crimes listed.This is some kind of deranged sympathy for Nazis who were responsible for the extermination of six million innocent people..
I honestly don't care that much whether or not the head Nazis got a fair trial. I was just answering the question.
The trials were neither fair nor objective. Their purpose was to appease the blood lust of millions of angry people. I doubt you could find an objective third party to give a fair trial anyway. They lost the war, and their punishment was a public humiliation followed by execution. Some Nazis were insanely cruel. Others less so, but they all had it coming. IMO
I support bring all war criminals to justice.
If the post war judgments were about being fair and obnjective, Goering and Harris would have gotten about the same sentences. They could have even shared a cell together and swapped stories about firebombing cities.
That's old history now. Few people remain alive from that era.
Since then we've laid waste to cities in the middle and far east (Hanoi, Tehran, Beruit, Fallujah...). War criminals still commit war crimes and get away with it. Some even win re-election (George W. BUsh). Periodically we have genocides on the same scale... (DRC, Rwanda...)
Having seen the Glorious Red Army at their best, I say that the Nazis were not the ONLY ones that needed to be tried for War Crimes.
Did it really take you 3 weeks to write this post??Once again, the Nazi apologists come out. Let's post Internet Links folks, not opinions.
The references that came with the linked article are referenced in 'history, rather than the gossip column.Yet that is what this fools whole piece is, an opinion.
The point of the link was it gave some instances where the 'verdicts' were overturned and to be quite frank for the magnitude of the crimes very few were even tried. Many more were taken in by the US or escaped to various parts of South America. The richest ones basically. Nobody seems to be (too) upset about that.I recommend that the author of this thread actually read the transcripts of the Military Tribunal. They are available at the Library of Congress and many other repositories.
Are you trying to paint those trials as being 'flawless' rather than more like the description in the link below?The evidence against the defendants was massive. Tens of thousands of documents, photo's, movie films, all of which proved that the holocaust happened, and that it was directed from above.
Those weren't necessarily JewsCourt transcripts of the "Kangaroo Courts" the Nazi's set up, condemning the mentally retarded, the mentally ill, the physically disabled to be murdered.
How many million was that? A vid by a Jew indicates 1/3 may be missing, what are the exact 'facts' he has wrong and what is the proof, rather than it being based on an 'opinion'?This "person" (and I use that term in the loosest possible connection to whatever this author is) appears to believe that those millions of Jews all just committed suicide. Of course, the fact that many Nazi leaders just HAPPENED to end up owning the homes, the art works, the vehicles, the household goods, etc. that had belonged to Jewish families pre-war meant nothing. We all know that the Jews simply abandoned everything, including their eyeglasses, their underwear, their shoes, their hair and their teeth when they disappeared somewhere in the world.
Those were collected at the front gate, the ones sent to work camps (or just survived in the same camp for long periods of time) did not get to keep their wallets and such. What happened to the other 5,900,000 ?The fact that ons of those materials, including passports and ID cards by the hundreds of thousands just HAPPENED to turn up at extermination camps was a mere coincidence.
I've seen some of the original footage, most of the time they were moving bodies by hand, two to a body.And the films of the prisoners, the starved and sick prisoners of those camps were all Hollywood makeup, right? The allies faked all of that.
Are you going to claim that in all the 'authorized books' not errors or exaggerations were made?? If so what errors did the vid linked above make as he mentions several well known 'experts' as giving false statements.And, the testimony of the people that had been in those camps was all lies too.
Face of the earth??? Germany was going to conquer the world ??? Obviously you are here to make any statement regardless of how far it is from the 'facts'.Up until the Nazi's took over in Germany, there had never been a systematic attempt by any government to literally extinguish various ethnic/religious groups from the face of the earth. Yes, there had been pogroms on local levels, but never a systematic campaign, all over the portions of Europe controlled by the Nazi's, to round up every Jew, every Gypsy, every Homosexual, every Seventh Day Adventist, and so on and so on. There had been no systematic effort to ship all of those people that had been rounded up to a very few camps.
The vid gives some alternatives.And just were did those millions of people go? They found mass graves at virtually every camp. All of them had crematories, massive crematories capable of dealing with hundreds of bodies at a time (each camp had greater facilities to consume bodies than Berlin, Paris and London combined had). What were such massive crematories used for?
Good question, Explain to me why Jews in Europe suddenly had a population explosion for 50 years when the rest of the world was really just barely making ends meet. (the data is from a Jewish site, the graph is not.Where did 6,000,000 Jews, and some 7,000,000 Russians, Gypsies, Homosexuals, physically and mentally disabled, religious leaders, members of specific religious groups, etc. all go to? None of them could be found anywhere in the world after the war.
My point is many more were given santuary than stood trial. not all verdicts were upheld either, that means it was a sloppy trial.And, to rebut the concept that the Nurnberg trials were a "Lynch Mob", I would point out that several of the most prominent people tried by the Military Tribunal were found to be innocent, and several others served prison terms instead of being sentenced to death. Rudolph Hess and Albert Speer are just two that were not hung
From this earth? I really think you are overstating things for no other reason than increasing the 'drama' effect.I have been to those camps. I have spoken with Germans that served at those camps. they existed for one thing, and one thing only, to eliminate people from this earth.
Depending on who 'we' is, .... the 'worst' were give a raise in pay and social status. (from SS officer to CIA adviser) That is the main part that makes the trials a mockery.Every high ranking Nazi should have just been shot upon capture. But we gave them a chance to defend their actions and their choices.