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re: The Nuremberg Trials
Posted on 10/7/19 at 4:10 am to RazorBroncs
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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Posted on 10/7/19 at 4:26 am to RollTide1987
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How did Nuremberg have jurisdiction over internal policies carried out by a regime pre-war?
One could argue that it was one continuous programme carried out from planning phase to fruition. "Leibensraum" was the cover from the beginning, and ethnic cleansing was always part of the plan.
That extended past war crimes and the actual start of military maneuvering on Poland and annexing of Czechoslovakia. Just like you could argue World War I started when Franz Ferdinand died long before militaries got involved.
The actions that became the reason the world went to war are still part of the war itself, the fact that they happened within a soverign nation didn't preclude them. At least that's my opinion, I realize the courts didn't necessarily agree.
Posted on 10/7/19 at 5:02 am to RollTide1987
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How did Nuremberg have jurisdiction over internal policies carried out by a regime pre-war?
Their internal pre war policies led to the war.
I mean, I really don't care if we had jurisdiction or not. Our side won the war. I would have been ok with some of these guys being taken out back and shot.
This post was edited on 10/7/19 at 5:06 am
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