From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: aus.politics,can.politics
Subject: Re: The Injustice of the Nuremberg Trials
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:00:30 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:48:28 -0500, rjac wrote:
> The Nuremberg Tribunal of 1945-46 Â the most spectacular judicial
> enterprise in history  was meant to prove that the defeated German
> regime had been one of unique and monstrous deceit, rapaciousness and
> evil. But in fact the Tribunal dispensed not justice, but injustice.
> The four Allied powers that organized and ran it were themselves
> guilty of some of the very same crimes they accused the German
> defendants of having committed. The Tribunal operated on the basis of
> Âex post facto law created after the fact expressly for the occasion,
> and which the Allies applied only to the defeated. The hangings of
> German leaders ordered by the Tribunal were little more than murders
> glossed over with a veneer of makeshift, hypocritical pseudo-legality.
>
> https://ihr.org/audio_file/2011-11-16
I think the Nuremburg trials were most illuminating: Orders, smorders.
If you wanna make your way burning, looting and murdering the rest of
us we're gonna String You Up under whatever Law it takes an' we don't
give a shit if yer Gawd did tell you to.
Dhu
--
Je suis Canadien:
Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglais,
C'est une esp`ece de sauvage.
Ne obliviscaris: vix ea nostra voco!
*A mari ad mari ad mari*
Duncan Patton a Campbell