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for having the courage to publicly denounce the Nuremberg Trials and reveal them to have been held
in, 'a spirit of vengeance, and vengeance is seldom justice. In these trials we have accepted the
Russian idea of the purpose of trials - government policy and not justice - with little relation to Anglo-
Saxon heritage."
"A step backward in international law." - Honorable Justice, Learned Hand
"A travesty of justice." - Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, U.S.N Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Asiatic Fleet
"...wholly unjustified and a disgrace to the national governments sanctioning it."
Rear Admiral Reginald R. Belknap, U.S.N. Atlantic Fleet
"Not in accordance with justice." - Hon. William Cosgrave, LL.D, President, Dail Eireann, 1922
"I could never accept the Nuremberg Trials as representing a fair and just procedure."
Dr. Igor I. Sikorsky, Aircraft Designer
"What we did in this case was to resort to private vengeance. Admiral Doenitz and other leaders who
were imprisoned should be recompensed for their treatment."
- Dr. John L. Gillin, Emeritus Professor of Criminology, University of Wisconsin
"I have been boiling mad for years over the 'war crimes trials which I think were despicable and
contemptible, and smack more of ancient Rome's barbarism than of a so-called civilized country. Not
only were the 'war crimes trials' one of the blackest spots on our recent black (and Red) history, but
the bombing of the only two Christian cities in Japan in August, 1945, via the atomic bomb calls to
high heaven for retribution." - Taylor Caldwell, American novelist
To Grand Admiral Doenitz: "I have always felt, and still feel that you were treated unfairly.... your
conviction by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal was a miscarriage of justice."
U.S. Senator William Langer
"A monstrosity and a nameless injustice." - Admiral Thomas Pizarro, Peruvian Navy
"The Nuremberg Trials were contrary to legal precepts."
- Alfonso of Bourbon and Orleans, Infante of Spain; Great-grandson of Queen Victoria
"It is not right to bring to trial officers or men who have acted under orders from higher authority....
the most brutal act of the war was the dropping of the Atom Bombs on Japan... the allies were far
from guiltless and should have taken that into fuller consideration."
Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Chatfield, P.C., G.C.B, Commander-in-Chief, British Atlantic Fleet
"I regard the Nuremberg 'war crimes trials' as one of the worst reflections upon enlightened leadership
in world affairs as ever has been known. The trials really were a disgrace upon all who participated
therein." - Hon. Michael Francis Doyle, LL.D, International lawyer, Papal Chamberlain
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