Judge Wennerstrum quit the Nuremberg trials for obvious reasons..... Here is how the article described the lot that came to post-war Germany to settle private scores, as seen through Justice Wennerstrums eyes, after he quit in disgust: If I had known seven months ago what I know today, (Wennerstrum) told friends as he packed to leave for America, I would never have come here. . . The initial war crimes trial here was judged and prosecuted by Americans, Russians, British and French with much of the time, effort and expenses devoted to whitewashing the Allies and placing the sole blame for World War II upon Germany. What I have said of the nationalist character of the tribunals, the judge continued, applies to the prosecution. The high ideals announced as the motives for creating these tribunals has not been evident. The prosecution has failed to maintain objectivity aloof from vindictiveness, aloof from personal ambitions for convictions. It has failed to strive to lay down precedents which might help the world to avoid future wars. The entire atmosphere here is unwholesome. Linguists were needed. the Americans are notably poor linguists. Lawyers, clerks, interpreters and researchers were employed who became Americans only in recent years, whose backgrounds were embedded in Europes hatreds and prejudices. . . (emphasis added) (Chicago Daily Tribune, 23 February 1948) In other words, the Allies supplied the interrogators, most of them Jews--as some of the victims, who had had a lifetime of experience in dealing with Jews and thus recognized them, have stated. Those of us who are German and can speak German can easily discern the ethnicity of some of the accusers by their mere accents and patterns of speech, even in radio broadcasts and newsreels.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:22:29 +0000