The International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg, organized by the Americans, but held in unison by all four victorious powers, gave the lynching of the German political elite a pseudo-legal cover. To this day, orthodox scholars laud this high-profile lynch party as a paragon of justice – which tells more about those scholars than about that tribunal.
After the IMT, the Americans conducted a number of further lynch parties in Nuremberg all by themselves (NMT). These were a continuation of the decapitation of Germany started at the IMT, although the other three victorious powers refused to cooperate, as they had their own fish to fry.
The contributions listed here take a critical look into these trials.
By N. Schwernik, J. Trainin, Nikolaus Lyssenko ∙ January 1, 1996
Introduction “The Nuremberg Trials.” The mere mention of these words conjures up stark images of atrocities of the Second World War. These were the trials of the top surviving members of the Nazi leadership. At the conclusion of the trials, a set of volumes would be produced documenting the evidence presented. These volumes would become…
By CODOH ∙ January 1, 1996
“It is the victors who write the history.”—Patrick J. Buchanan “[The Nuremberg] war-crimes trials were based upon a complete disregard of sound legal precedents, principles and procedures. The court had no real jurisdiction over the accused or their offenses; it invented ex post facto crimes; it permitted the accusers to act as prosecutors, judges, jury…
By Germanica ∙ January 1, 1998
The other day I cited a prominent and highly regarded Russian historian (that is, historian of Russia) whose interpretation of some aspects of 20th century Soviet history matched my own, and which in both cases tended toward a revisionist perspective. The rejoinder I received was something along the lines of “OK, so you found a…
By Stephen J. Sniegoski ∙ April 13, 1998
Nuremberg: The Last Battle by David Irving. Focal Point Publications, 1996. 377 + x pp., £20.00. Stephen J. Sniegoski As stated in the title of by David Irving's book, the Nuremberg Trial was the last battle of World War II in Europe. Nazi Germany had already been physically destroyed by the superior military power of…
By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ January 3, 1998
In my book, Not Guilty at Nuremberg, I wrote: “Telford Taylor was incapable of repeating the simplest statement truthfully. (See XX 626, the statements of General Manstein, compared with Taylor's 'quotation' from Manstein, XXII 276.) The following are “quotations” from Taylor (Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials, Back Bay Books, Little Brown & Co., paperback, by…
By Göran Holming ∙ January 8, 1997
As is well known, no order or any other kind of directive from Hitler or Himmler exists that calls for the extermination or gassing of the Jews. On the other hand, allied propaganda alleges that there was an order from Himmler to stop the gassings.[1] If such an order indeed existed, it would provide strong…
By Lawrence Douglas ∙ January 11, 1995
Introduction: Film as Witness and The Problem of Representation[1] November 20, 1995, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the most unusual judicial proceedings of the century, the Nuremberg war crimes trials. After a day devoted to entering die indictment and the pleas, Robert H. Jackson, a sitting Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court…
By Wilhelm Stäglich ∙ February 1, 2015
Auschwitz is the epicenter of the Holocaust. There is no place on earth where more people are said to have been murdered than at Auschwitz. At this detention camp the industrialized mass murder of the Jews by Nazi Germany reached its demonic pinnacle. This narrative is based on a wide range of evidence, the most…
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 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…
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