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THE NUREMBERG 'TRIALS'
".. a libel on the military profession."
Vice Admiral Hewlett Thebaud, USN
"... a fantastic desecration of the ideals of Western Civilisation, and appalling miscarriage of
justice... a misuse of evidence for vicious ends, all of which will someday be exposed as a
shocking travesty of high legal and moral principles."
Henry M. Adams, Ph.D. Professor of History, University of California
JUSTICE ON TRIAL
The International Tribunal at Nuremberg, set up to pass judgement on the vanquished nations, was
neither international nor legal in any accepted sense of these terms. Most of these 'trials' were
arranged independently of other victor nations; Great Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet
Union along with dictatorships created by the allies, Participation by neutral states or observers was
neither invited nor welcomed. Mostly, they were 'military tribunals' such as the American Military
Tribunal' which ran 'trials' at Dachau.
The British government set up its own trials, independently of other victor nations so it is difficult to
imagine why or how such charades could ever be described as being international in nature. The U.S
Supreme Court on December, 20th, 1948, washed its hands of U.S Government responsibility when it
stated: "We are satisfied that the Tribunal sentencing these prisoners is not a tribunal of the United
States."
"Then why, one might ask, were U.S. citizens and government officials serving as prosecutors and
judges, and why has the U.S. Government participated in and endorsed an alien tribunal which does
not accord to defendants the same rights which American defendants would receive before U.S. courts
at home?"
- H.K Thompson and Henry Strutz,M.A. Doenitz at Nuremberg: A re-Appraisal. N.Y., 1976
"The Nuremberg process in itself was not a judicial process, but an act of vengeance against the
defeated. Nuremberg was particularly profaned by the fact that the Russians were among the judges
and themselves guilty of many crimes and atrocities..... Being a jurist myself, and a Christian, I abhor
the justice of Nuremberg." - Most Reverend. Bishop Vincentas Brizgys, Bishop of Lithuania
"I think the world expected us to give proof of American legal principles and judicial practice by
using them when dealing with our defeated enemies. Instead of this, Gestapo and MVD methods
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