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While I agree that Nuremberg was a dose of victor's justice, there's a more nuanced point lurking in here. Some of the men brought to trial beat the charges by
by bhickey 11y ago
While I agree that Nuremberg was a dose of victor's justice, there's a more nuanced point lurking in here. Some of the men brought to trial beat the charges by pleading, essentially, "you did it too." Dönitz, for example, was convicted of waging unrestricted submarine warfare but this wasn't taken into account during sentencing. Goering received a death sentence for his involvement in slave labor, mass murder and a host of , but not for bombing London.