I am watching a BBC doc about the Nuremberg trials. It is overall propagandizing against the concept of trying crimes against humanity at all. Due to, as described, the british position: it’ll just be another chance for the defendants to present their position to the world so better to hang them and be done with it.
Q: Agree/disagree with the above? Both in the specific instance, and in general.
It was the first, but not the last, such proceeding. What are we learning from subsequent?
Sorry if this wasn’t clear, but i was being facetious, obviously there was no material reason why West Germany or NATO needed a bunch of allegedly former Nazis staffing the bureaucracy, i think the more immediately causal factor was just political apathy among the western powers for keeping all of the middle managers in prison compared to the east, and when they got out they went back to what they were doing before, managing in the middle and climbing the social ladder, the exception being a few Nazis with very specific skills or knowledge like Von Braun and Heusinger.