I'm gonna assume by the "1987" in your handle that you're the same age as me. I don't agree with some of your points, but I always find it awesome when someone of our generation knows their shite about WWII.

I'm 100% Polish, grandparents all came to the US to either fight with the Americans or get away from the ghettos (half were Jewish).

I do agree with your point that some of the military personnel, who were just carrying out military operations, should've been sentenced more accordingly.

As for Hess, he was a day late and a dollar short. Look further into what the Nazi party did and believed before the war actually broke out, he knew what was coming and even had a major hand in planning it.

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Posted by RollTide1987

Augusta, GA

Member since Nov 2009

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Posted on 10/7/19 at 4:10 am to RazorBroncs

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Look further into what the Nazi party did and believed before the war actually broke out, he knew what was coming and even had a major hand in planning it.

I have and none of that matters to the Nuremberg Trials which were meant to find men and women guilty of war crimes. Hess's conviction exceeded their mandate. Was he a piece of shite? Yeah. Absolutely. But his argument that his actions pre-war should not count toward the criminal proceedings is a valid one. How did Nuremberg have jurisdiction over internal policies carried out by a regime pre-war? And how could they justify convicting and sentencing Hess for those pre-war decisions when many Soviets who sat on that court presided over similar measures undertaken by their own government prior to World War II? Stalin's policies resulted in the deaths of millions of Russians in the lead-up to the Second World War.

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