Source: spiked
by James Woudhuysen
“Nuremberg was more than a courtroom drama. For more than 10 months, the Allies not only ensured that some kind of justice was done there. They also contained the populist and radical worldwide atmosphere of anti-fascism immediately after the war, by making justice seen to be done. … Nuremberg, then, amounted to a juridical attack on evil. To its credit, the tribunal recognised the extraordinarily monstrous deeds of the Nazis. To its discredit, and despite its key charge of conspiracy, it tended to convert the historical experience of fascism into a timeless morality play …” (11/20/25)