Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis go on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, for atrocities committed during World War II.
The Nuremberg Trials were conducted by an international tribunal made up of representatives from the United States, the Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain. It was the first trial of its kind in history, and the defendants faced charges ranging from crimes against peace, to crimes of war, to crimes against humanity. Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, the British member, presided over the proceedings, which lasted 10 months and consisted of 216 court sessions.
On October 1, 1946, 12 architects of Nazi policy were sentenced to death. Seven others were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 10 years to life, and three were acquitted. Of the original 24 defendants, one, Robert Ley, committed suicide while in prison, and another, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, was deemed mentally and physically incompetent to stand trial. Among those condemned to death by hanging were Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi minister of foreign affairs; Hermann Goering, leader of the Gestapo and the Luftwaffe; Alfred Jodl, head of the German armed forces staff; and Wilhelm Frick, minister of the interior.
On October 16, 10 of the architects of Nazi policy were hanged. Goering, who at sentencing was called the “leading war aggressor and creator of the oppressive program against the Jews,” committed suicide by poison on the eve of his scheduled execution. Nazi Party leader Martin Bormann was condemned to death in absentia (but is now believed to have died in May 1945). Trials of lesser German and Axis war criminals continued in Germany into the 1950s and resulted in the conviction of 5,025 other defendants and the execution of 806.
(((They))) put lipstick on the victors justice pig. However, it was still a pig.
The fact that this event is still portrayed as a trial rather than what it was- a wartime propaganda spectacle, should make all but the most closed-minded wonder what else in commonly accepted history has been so blatantly twisted.
Despite the “trials” by the so-called victors, isn’t the head of the EU Mr. Jean Claude Juncker from the famous aircraft company that supplied the Nazi war effort? Doesn’t Germany dominate Europe and in fact isn’t the non-elected EU Parliment the same basic plan that Corporal Hitler had proposed for the other conquered vassal states? Funny how things work out….
The Nuremberg trials were one of the most egregious farces ever foisted on Germany. Here are but a few examples of the “victors” exacting retribution on the vanquished.
To wit:
That, irrelevant appeal to authority, what the court is saying bears no relevance to what is the reality. Thanks to articles 19 and 21 of the Nuremberg constitution they could accept any rubbish they wanted ignoring standard procedures applied in non biased and independent court:
Article 19: The Tribunal shall not be bound by technical rules of evidence. It shall adopt and apply to the greatest possible extent expeditious and nontechnical procedure, and shall admit any evidence which it deems to be of probative value.
Article 21: The Tribunal shall not require proof of facts of common knowledge but shall take judicial notice thereof. It shall also take judicial notice of official governmental documents and reports of the United Nations, including the acts and documents of the committees set up in the various allied countries for the investigation of war crimes, and of records and findings of military or other Tribunals of any of the United Nations.
That judicial notice and common knowledge mean, that everything what circulated among people long enough to become common knowledge could be accepted as a fact without need to prove it, like witchcraft which was a common knowledge in the past and thus real according to that silly approach. Sending people to death on the basis of false/missing evidence was a crime. What public believe is irrelevant to what is the reality and evidence. That the so called evidence was accepted without challenge speaks volume about the show nature of such trials.
Problem is, that even some of the judges were concerned the way the Nuremberg “kangaroo court” was handled.
Much of the “evidence” presented at the trials was not evidence at all, but was based on conjecture, rumor, innuendo and hearsay, such as the quantity of people supposedly “gassed and cremated, (even today, the figures are an impossibility), “lampshades and soap” made from jews, those who could tell who was being cremated from the smell and color of smoke, and other obvious falsities. The Nuremberg trials, were “show trials” no different than the show trials put on by the Soviets.
Even General George S. Patton KNEW who the real enemy was…Hint: It wasn’t Germany …
Patton was one of senior ranking military men of the era who did not look kindly on allegations of genocide of a certain people group in Europe ostensibly performed by the Germans.
https://www.darkmoon.me/2015/torture-and-testicle-crushing-at-nuremberg/
Atrocities committed during the war? Like nuking half a million civilians, firebombing major cities around Europe, including in France or blowing up all the German infrastructure which led to mass starvation in their labor camps?
The wrong side was on trial. The real criminal sadistic bastards walked off scott free.
A farce. I read a bit on it and listened to David Irving. While I have hundreds if not thousands of pages of material to cover before I can truly call myself decently informed on the truth, I’ve seen enough to know that this was a show trial and an embarrassment to U.S. history and to the history of American jurisprudence.
Falsification of testimony was a part of this “trial.” Robert Taft, the Republican leader of the immediate postwar era, was critical of the trials; this earned him the praise of none other than him the praise of John F. Kennedy in Profiles in Courage. Add to all this the fact that the head prosecutor from the Soviet delegation had also been in charge of prosecuting alleged traitors/”enemies of the revolution” during the Stalinist show trials of the late 1930s (during which many old Bolsheviks were made to confess to ludicrous and absurd charges), which only highlighted what a bad joke the trials were.
Isn’t there _anybody_ on TBP that wants to stand up and defend those righteous, justice-seeking, ilustrious heroes who conducted the Nuremberg trials?
Me neither.
BUT …. what about the SCIENTISTS who designed all those Nazi weapons, and possible super-weapons and other instruments of death? Shouldn’t some of them had stood trial?
Whether ‘yes’ or ‘no’ … America kept the best of them! Including Werver von Braun of V-2 fame, and later Saturn rockets.
All I’m saying is ….. hypocrisy!