Reply #3: "Gleichschaltung," an ominous word, that some colaborators........... [View All]

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Seems to have missed. When I hear stories of Jewish industries shipping goods on Nazi cargo lines right up until the time of the start of WWII, cringe seems an impolite word.
The merchants were unwitting victims as much as anybody, I mean it wasn’t like they broadcast to the population what they were doing.

Most of it fits somehow, somewhere, you just have to put the pieces of the puzzle together. I am sure it’s hard for some, especially when they put them $$$$$ sign's in front of their eyes, it does blind some people, you know. Greed can be fostered in any culture and in the subtext of what things look like today, with the me-me generation going full bore, one need not wonder too much to be able pick out a few big Ah-ha’s.

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/trials12.htm
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THE TRIAL

On the opening day of the trial, the twenty-one indicted war trial defendants took their seats in the dock at the rear of the sage-green draped and dark paneled room. Behind them stood six American sentries with their backs against the wall. At 10 a.m., the marshal shouted, "Attention! All rise. The tribunal will now enter." The judges from the four countries walked through a door and took their seats at the bench. Sir Geoffrey Lawrence rapped his gavel. "This trial, which is now to begin," said Lawrence, "is unique in the annals of jurisprudence." The Major War Figures Trial was underway in Nuremberg.

The trial began with the reading of the indictments. The indictments concerned four counts. All defendants were indicted on at least two of the counts; several were indicted on all four counts. Count One, "conspiracy to wage aggressive war," addressed crimes committed before the war began. Count Two, "waging an aggressive war (or "crimes against peace"), addressed the undertaking of war in violation of international treaties and assurances. Count Three, "war crimes," addressed more traditional violations of the laws of war such as the killing or mistreatment of prisoners of war and the use of outlawed weapons. Count Four, "crimes against humanity," addressed crimes committed against Jews, ethnic minorities, the physically and mentally disabled, civilians in occupied countries, and other persons. Perhaps the greatest of these crimes against humanity was, of course, the mass murder of jews in concentration camps--the so-called "Final Solution." For an entire day, defendants listened as prosecutors read a detailed list of the crimes they stood accused of committing.

THE PROSECUTION CASE

The next day Robert Jackson delivered his opening statement for the prosecution. Jackson spoke eloquently for two hours. He told the court, "The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated."

The prosecution case was divided into two main phases. The first phase focused on establishing the criminality of various components of the Nazi regime, while the second sought to establish the guilt of individual defendants. The first prosecutorial phase was divided into parts.
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