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What was wrong with Nuremberg?
by asimpletune 5y ago
What was wrong with Nuremberg?
- lostlogin 5y agoThe section titled ‘Criticism’ in the Wiki is a good starting point. The allied victors made laws then retroactively applied them. Why was there so little reflection, consequence or punishment for allied murders, rapes and killings? Why were these new laws only applied to the loser? The Nuremberg trials have been described as show trials and organised lynching by the victors. The Soviets provided a judge who had helped oversee purges in the ‘30s where hundreds of thousands were murdered by the Soviet state. While the defendants perhaps got what they deserved, they did not get a fair trial or the opportunity to voice inconvenient truths. The sentencing was unequal and illogical - why did Speer get the sentence he got? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials
- asimpletune 5y agoThanks for taking the time to write that, looks super interesting. I will definitely check it out.
- ben_w 5y agoI think the argument here is “not enough governments were put on trial”.