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"... had the same legal status as a Kangaroo Court.... The 'War Crimes Trials' can only be justified by
Marxist, Leninist, Stalinist and New Dealist doctrines."
- Rear Admiral Henry C. Flanagan, U.S.N. Commander, Transport Divisions, Pacific
"....largely for propaganda purposes and unwise."
Major General William W.P Gibsone, C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., Royal Canadian Army
"Many of us felt that the actions taken were autocratic and had no place in a democracy."
Vice Admiral Edward W. Hanson, U.S.N
"... regrettable and attributable to mass hysteria.."
Rear Admiral George W. Bauernschmidt, S.C., U.S.N
"... contrary to civilised ideals and principles of legal justice. This country owes to Grand Admiral
Doenitz and to many other men at the least a humble apology for what we have caused them to suffer.
Let us hope that we have learned from these tragic mistakes a lesson we shall never forget, and that
never again shall we repeat such conduct." - Honourable Edward Leroy Van Roden, President Judge
Note: The Honourable Edward Leroy Van Roden, President Judge, served as a member of the
Commission set up to investigate the cases of German officers and soldiers tried by the American
Military Courts at Dachau. He later testified as to the methods of interrogation used which included
legal farce, illegal, unfair and cruel (torture) methods and duress to secure confessions of guilt.
"I am glad to join other American citizens in condemning such procedures as those established."
Hon. Hugh G. Grant, American Diplomat
"I think those (Nuremberg) trials were the greatest mistake our government could have made and
predict that the precedent set will haunt this country for hundreds of years."
Major General Howard C. Davidson. U.S.A.F World War 11
"The infamous 'war crimes trials' will undoubtedly cause the future inhabitants of this cockeyed planet
to blush with embarrassment." - Robert LeFevre, American educator and author
"... is manifestly an injustice." - Admiral Harold R. Stark. U.S.N. Chief of Naval Operations, 1939-42
"I attended the Nuremberg Trials for several days as a guest of one of the legal profession. One cannot
help getting the impression that the law was fabricated." - General Sir Henry Charles Loyd, K.C.B.,
C.B., K.C.V.O., D.S.O., M.C. Commander-in-Chief, Southern Command
"The trials were not based on justice, precedent or international law. They have set a vicious
precedent." - Admiral Laurence T. DuBose, U.S.N. Commander, Cruiser Division. World war 11
"I was asked if I would sit on the Court which was assembled to try Field Marshall von Manstein
about 1948, but refused because I felt that the whole principle of these war crimes trials was wrong.
In fact, it seems to me that the basis of the majority of the war crimes trials were not founded on true
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