An American ex-patriate, skilled linguist and translator living in Belgium and author of a number of books and papers – like Not Guilty at Nuremberg, Made in Russia: The Holocaust – Porter was charged by the Germans in 1997 for denying the Holocaust. He refused to attend the trial, was tried in absentia and convicted. He responded with a defiant, blistering Emile Zola-like excoriating written counterattack to the judge in his case.
By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ January 1, 1990
Note IMT = 1st Nuremberg Trial, in 4 languages. NMT = 12 later Nuremberg Trials, in English. In the absence of any indication to the contrary, all page numbers refer to the American edition, with the German page numbers in [brackets]. Dedicated to Barbara Kulaszka and Dan Gannon Introduction The re-writing of history is as…
By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ January 1, 1990
In war crimes trials, confessions are usually typewritten by the interrogator, often entirely in English. Paragraphs in the prisoner's handwriting have usually been dictated by the interrogator. The First Dachau Trial (Trial of Martin Gottfried Weiss and Thirty Nine Others), offers an insight into the manner in which these confessions were obtained. TESTIMONY OF KICK,…
By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ January 1, 1990
Objects of human skin feature prominently in war crimes trials. As a rule, no such objects were found; no forensic tests were performed. Prosecution testimony as to the existence of such objects is taken as “proven fact”, while defence testimony is ignored. At Dachau, the prosecution claimed that Jews were skinned; that the skins were…
By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ January 1, 1990
In war crimes trials, “conspiracy”, “design”, and “plan”, are used sometimes synonymously, and sometimes not. The doctrine of conspiracy was borrowed from American state and lower Federal Court decisions, particularly Marino vs. US, 91 Fed. 2d. 691, Circuit Court of Appeals. The rest of the world, of course, was not placed on notice to obey…
By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ January 1, 1990
We are all familiar with an instrument called the kaleidoscope, in which loose bits of glass are reflected by plane mirrors showing each bit of glass in 6 places at once, creating the illusion of a symmetrical design. A similar phenomenon occurs in “War Crimes Trials,” in which gas chambers are shown in 3 different…
By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ January 9, 1990
The Tokyo War Crimes Trial, or, You Are What You Eat – So Be Careful If You Can't Eat 'Em, Beat 'Em Or, How I Killed Thousands of People With My Bare Hands I Left my Heart in Old Mukden, or, How I Survived Miraculously While Almost Nobody Died Japan was Provoked into a War…
By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ January 1, 1988
© Historical Review Press, 1988 Introduction War crimes trials are characterized by the assumption that rules of evidence are a technicality designed to enable the guilty to evade punishment. In fact, however, their purpose is to protect tribunals from errors in judgement. Centuries ago, it was common to prosecute women for performing sexual acts with…
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