This equivocation between Nazi war crimes and the Holocaust (not a war crime, but a crime against humanity) on the one side, and whatever excesses the allies co

This equivocation between Nazi war crimes and the Holocaust (not a war crime, but a crime against humanity) on the one side, and whatever excesses the allies committed, is deeply misguided. And I say that as a German. There is obviously an element of “the victor gets to write history” to the Nuremberg Trials. But there is still an underlying, objective truth of grave injustice, and the trials did the best that was possible under the circumstances to capture it. Dresden, Nagasaki, My Lai, the Iraq war in its entirety: all of these were wrong, to different extends and for differing reasons. The industrial slaughter of more than four million people, intended to wipe out a culture and motivated by nothing but shallow hatred, still stands apart, incomparable.