Am I confused, or were these children placed in jeopardy because their parents chose to place them there by breaking American immigration laws? Or maybe the Orange-Haired Demon is planning to roast them for his supper, after his appetizer of cute puppies and fuzzy kittens.
Incidentally, the Nuremberg trials were the worst kind of show trials, sponsored by and on behalf of the Soviet Union's propaganda machine, which sought to shift blame for all of the war's atrocities on defeated Germany. In granting the judges the final say in what evidence would be admissible, the right to question witnesses directly, and to ignore the arguments of defense or prosecution attorneys, the Tribunal followed exactly the practice of the ancient Catholic Inquisition, giving the predetermined verdicts the appearance of legitimate legal findings.
The Allies discarded basic principles of Western jurisprudence, perhaps most notably the well-established principle that in the absence of a law there can be neither crime nor punishment. Instead, the Tribunal established new laws for the occasion, which were applied not only retroactively, but uniquely and exclusively to the German defendants.
The biased nature of the proceedings is starkly evident in these three articles from the Tribunal's Constitution. Article 19: The Tribunal shall not be bound by technical rules of evidence; Article 20: The Tribunal may require to be informed of the nature of any evidence "before it is entered" so that it may rule upon the "relevance thereof." (Emphasis added.); Article 21: The Tribunal shall not require proof of “facts of common knowledge" but shall take judicial notice thereof. (Emphasis added.)
Forged documents were routinely submitted as genuine, and almost all the defendants had endured torture in order to obtain the testimony the Soviets required. Out of 139 German witnesses who testified that the “holocaust” had occurred, for one example, the British Medical Officer recorded that 137 had “damage to their testicles that is beyond repair”. A number of Germans had died under interrogation by the Allies. There was also the ever-present threat of torturing or murdering the men’s families or sending them to Soviet Gulags.
The Chief Justice of the United States Harlan Fiske Stone called the Nuremberg trials a fraud. He said, “Chief US prosecutor Jackson is away conducting his high-grade lynching party in Nuremberg,” he wrote. “I don’t mind what he does to the Nazis, but I hate to see the pretense that he is running a Court and proceeding according to common law. This is a little too sanctimonious a fraud to meet my old-fashioned ideas.”
Associate Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas charged that the Allies were guilty of “substituting power for principle” at Nuremberg. “I thought at the time and still think that the Nuremberg trials were unprincipled,” he wrote. “Law was created ex post facto to suit the passion and clamor of the time.”
The nations that looked on the Third Reich with such moral indignation had the blood of millions on their collective hands, from the spectacular savagery of Stalin, to the murders, enslavement, and exploitation of hundreds of millions in the Third World by France and Britain, and of course the slavery, genocide, and the unabashed racism that were the foundations of the United States. Moreover, these nations specifically rejected defining norms of international conduct which they feared might limit their future ability to destabilize or destroy other nations.
