Events and developments in the post-WWII period following the end of hostilities. This section does not include 9/11 revisionism (re. the alleged Arab attacks on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001), which has its own entry under “About Revisionism and Historiography in General” > “US History” > “Sept. 11”
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 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…
By Edward L. Van Roden ∙ January 2, 1949
I American investigators at the U. S. Court in Dachau, Germany, used the following methods to obtain confessions: Beatings and brutal kickings. Knocking out teeth and breaking jaws. Mock trials. Solitary confinement. Posturing as priests. Very limited rations. Spiritual deprivation. Promises of acquittal. Complaints concerning these third degree methods were received by Secretary of the…
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 Alfred M. De Zayas ∙ January 1, 1988
At the edge of the town, on the left side of the road, stands the large inn 'Weisser Krug' … In the farmyard further down the road stood a cart, to which four naked women were nailed through their hands in a cruciform position. Behind the Weisser Krug towards Gumbinnen is a square with a…
By Victor Gollancz ∙ January 1, 1961
There are points of similarity, it is true, between the Nazi wickedness and other wickedness at various periods of the world's history. The Jews, for instance, slaughtered the Amalekites down to the last man, woman and child because their god, they believed, had ordered his chosen people to do so, just as the Nazi slaughtered…
By Anthony Kubek ∙ October 1, 1989
The Morgenthau Diaries consist of 900 volumes located at Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York. As a consultant to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, I was assigned to examine all documents dealing with Germany, particularly ones related to the Morgenthau Plan for the destruction of Germany following the Second World War. The Subcommittee was…
By Michael Darlow ∙ January 1, 1974
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