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Germany was represented among the judges who
condemned a number of the accused for preparing
and starting the Second World War? I can very well
understand that all those documents will have
extraordinary significance for future historians, as they
give a clear and enlightening picture of the mentality
of the Nazi leaders and their ghastly crimes. But
could not the same have been achieved without
letting people, even if most of them were criminals,
endure this terrible mental strain? If a new world
war should sometime in the future be inflicted on
mankind, which I sincerely hope will not be the case,
but for which we unfortunately must be prepared,
may not the Nurenberg and other trials, for example
those of leading politicians in Germany and other
countries, become a precedent for the future? An
English general once said to me, when we discussed
these questions after the war, that if England should
lose the next war all the English generals would have
to be prepared to face prison. Is it also quite certain
that those who, probably quite rightly, were
considered the worst criminals, and therefore sentenced to
death by the Nurenberg tribunal, really received the
severest punishment? I doubt it. One of those who
was not sentenced to die asked if his sentence could
be changed to the death penalty as he understood
that the rest of his life could only be one long
suffering.
Finally, one more point. Is it so absolutely certain
that all the four nations represented on the tribunal
are blameless? If one honestly and truly had reflected
on the Bible text which prefaces this book: ”Judge
not... that ye be not judged”, one might possibly
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