THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTimprisonment. 295 According to a report by a US Senator drawn up atthat time, mistreatment of German prisoners by Allied personnel was afrequent occurrence: 432– Burning of the skin;– Beds of the nails destroyed by ramming matches under the nails;– Torn-out fingernails;– Broken teeth;– Broken jaws;– Crushed testicles;– All kinds of wounding by beating with truncheons, brass knuckles,and kicks;– Confinement while naked in cold, damp, and dark rooms;– Imprisonment for days in hot rooms without water;– Mock trials;– Mock judgments;– Mock executions;– Mock priests, and many other methods.A few voices were raised at that time in the USA clearly statingthat the Nuremberg Tribunal was a case of revenge, not justice. 433These voices spoke of:– Forced testimony under the threat of punishment;– Compelled production of all documents to the prosecution;– Refusal to provide documents or examination of documents forthe defense;– Travel and currency prohibitions against the defense.A glance at the London Agreement, which established the legalframework for the Nuremberg Trials, reveals two remarkable articles,which are clearly incompatible with the procedures of a state under the432 Reference is made here to the mock trials held at Dachau by the Americans; see the speech bySenator J. McCarthy, sent to Dachau as an observer on behalf of the U.S. Senate, CongressionalRecord-Senate No. 134, Sept. 26, 1949, pp. 10397ff., reproduced in full in R. Tiemann,Der Malmedy-Prozeß, Munin, Osnabrück 1990, pp. 269ff.; see also F. Oscar, Über Galgenwächst kein Gras, Erasmus-Verlag, Braunschweig 1950, pp. 38ff.; R. Aschenauer, Machtgegen Recht, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Recht und Wirtschaft, Munich 1952, pp. 13ff.; FredaUtley, Kostspielige Rache, H.H. Nölke-Verlag, Hamburg 7 1952, esp. pp. 216ff.; Engl.: FredaUtley, The High Cost of Vengeance, Regnery, Chicago 1949.433 See, in this regard in particular, the article in: New York Times, Feb. 23, 25, 29; March 6; July30; Oct. 7, 1948; Jan. 7, March 2, 5; May 5, 1949; Chicago Daily Tribune, Feb. 23-26, 28, 29,1948; March 12; Sept. 13, 1949; Our Sunday Visitor, USA, June 14, 1959, 15; Daily News,Washington, Jan. 9, 1949; Sunday Pictorial, Great Britain, Jan. 23, 1949.198