Ten years after the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, nearly every Nazi war criminal not sentenced to death had been freed, including the mass murderer who starved to death millions of Soviet prisoners!
If you haven't already read Adam Tooze's economic history of the Third Reich, Wages of Destruction, it discusses the Hunger Plan at some length, even though it's not the focus of the book. Tooze also discusses the mass murder of Soviet POWs.
thank you for your excellent and informative piece. I can only repeat what the previous writer wrote: "Thank you for your courage and commitment to humanity".
In case you are interested, I am publishing historical notes on the conflict in Palestine. It is important not to forget where the Palestinian tragedy came from:
Well, they already have, in a sense. They have not spent a day in prison, and likely won't. Thousands of Nazi war criminals were at least convicted, even if most had short jail sentences.
I'd like to note too, re your other comment about US war crimes not being prosecuted, you are absolutely right. However, while in my article along those lines I referenced US crimes in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and US use of torture, I did not mention the war crimes the US undertook during the Second Cold War. Whether it was the use of atomic weapons, the mass fire bombings, or the US own experience of shooting prisoners and civilians, or poor treatment of German POWs, there were definitely war crimes. The primary difference was that the Nazi regime appeared to have consciously set out to engage in genocide that time (just as the US did only five years later in the Korean War).
I do think that the issue of a "victor's justice" is a fair criticism of international prosecutions, but one that has not gone without some attempt, unsuccessful I'd say, to ameliorate that problem. In truth, I do not think international justice will be successfully achieved until other aspects of inequality in world societies are adequately addressed and/or overcome. That is to say, the ongoing existence of imperialism hampers the progress of creating a truly fair process of international law and justice.
Thank you for your courage and commitment to humanity
Thank you so much for the kind words!
Dear Jeffery, I quote from this piece in my latest substack article. thx!
https://finnandreen.substack.com/p/us-foreign-policy-is-like-a-mafia
Sounds like a book I need to read!
If you haven't already read Adam Tooze's economic history of the Third Reich, Wages of Destruction, it discusses the Hunger Plan at some length, even though it's not the focus of the book. Tooze also discusses the mass murder of Soviet POWs.
Sounds like Tooze's book is also a must read for me. Thanks!
thank you for your excellent and informative piece. I can only repeat what the previous writer wrote: "Thank you for your courage and commitment to humanity".
In case you are interested, I am publishing historical notes on the conflict in Palestine. It is important not to forget where the Palestinian tragedy came from:
https://palestinianhistory.substack.com/p/the-zionist-expulsion-of-the-palestinians
Thank you, both for your kind words and also for posting the link to your important work!
One wonders if Israeli war criminals will get off so quickly and easily..
Well, they already have, in a sense. They have not spent a day in prison, and likely won't. Thousands of Nazi war criminals were at least convicted, even if most had short jail sentences.
I'd like to note too, re your other comment about US war crimes not being prosecuted, you are absolutely right. However, while in my article along those lines I referenced US crimes in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and US use of torture, I did not mention the war crimes the US undertook during the Second Cold War. Whether it was the use of atomic weapons, the mass fire bombings, or the US own experience of shooting prisoners and civilians, or poor treatment of German POWs, there were definitely war crimes. The primary difference was that the Nazi regime appeared to have consciously set out to engage in genocide that time (just as the US did only five years later in the Korean War).
I do think that the issue of a "victor's justice" is a fair criticism of international prosecutions, but one that has not gone without some attempt, unsuccessful I'd say, to ameliorate that problem. In truth, I do not think international justice will be successfully achieved until other aspects of inequality in world societies are adequately addressed and/or overcome. That is to say, the ongoing existence of imperialism hampers the progress of creating a truly fair process of international law and justice.
And here 80 years later, not a single Allied war crime was charged đŸ™„