Nuremburg Trials?

Question

Is the pursuit of and final outcome of the Nuremberg Trials in America’s national interest?
Do the Nuremberg Trials bring an acceptable level of justice to the world?

Answer 1

So far as I know the Nurenberg Trials are done and over with. They were set up to judge and punish those responsible for the genocide that took place during World War II.

As far as I know everyone who was tried was sentenced or acquitted. There are fugitives, of course, like the famous Josef Mengele, otherwise known as the Angel of Death. He died in Brazil many years ago.

I don't know how many more there may be out there, but they exist. One was caught in Argentina last year (I think). He was extradited to Germany. He had been tried and convicted in absentia to life in prison.

So: Given that there are still criminals on the loose who are responsible for SIX MILLION OR MORE DEATHS, I would spare no effort to catch the remaining ones. Now that Argentina is coming to terms with its own political skeletons, they may be more cooperative in opening up the files of the time when they were sympathizers of the Third Reich.

Furthermore: The more fugitive Nazis that are captured, the fewer that got away with murder writ large. Catch them all, as old as they may be. Lock them up in room of cast concrete with fake shower heads and fill the room with smoke from a smoke machine. Maybe then (after they change their underpants), when they realize that they were gassed with a non-lethal chemical, will they understand the horror that they brought into this world.

Is it in the US's best interests? What, do I have to spell it out for you??? Of course!!! Anything to dispel the wonderful inadequacy of our current administration!

Answer 2

Do the Nuremberg Trials bring an acceptable level of justice to the world?

In my opinion no. The Germans were tried for crimes that their accusers were also guilty of.

Mass murder: Soviets were equally guilty.

Crimes against Humanity: Soviets were equally guilty.
Imprisoning/persecuting groups based upon race or religion:

Britian: Concentration camps in South Africa 1900's
USA: mass internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry.
Soviet Union: Mass deportation of Poles, latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians to salve labor camps.

Waging aggressive War:
Soviet Union: Invasion of Poland as a defacto Ally of Nazi Germany. Invasion of Finland, Estonia, latvia, Lithuania.

In the end it was only "Victor's Justice."