[af_vet_1981]

I note you have walked back some of your comments and no longer assert " The Nuremberg trials were nothing but victors justice." You do, it seems to me, still believe Eisenhower and Churchill (and presumably other Americans and British) should be also charged with war crimes. Is the sympathy for the Germans religious in nature or other ?

[LeoMcNeil]

Under the precedent set at Nuremberg, Churchill, FDR, Truman, Stalin and any number of Generals could be found guilty of war crimes or waging aggressive war. As such, I find Nuremberg to be hypocritical and nothing more than victors justice. After all, if the precedents set at Nuremberg applied to everyone then Churchill would be guilty concerning the bombing of Dresden and other German cities and Truman would be guilty of dropping nukes in Japan.

If Nuremberg was limited simply to crimes against humanity (read: the systematic murder of civilians, Jews or otherwise) then it wouldn’t have been victors justice. However, obviously, Nuremberg wasn’t limited. We have to look at the entire trial, not just one count.