But on the other hand, the British Lord Chief Justice allowed Weiszacker to introduce the evidence of the “Secret Protocol” to the Non-Aggression Pact in his defense, despite the Soviet Prosecutor going ape over it’s disclosure.
Nuremberg was a very odd sort of jurisprudence.
It certainly wasn't justice until the Americans began to lose their appetites for revenge.
One of my favorites was the British “Old School Tie/Gentlemen’s Club”approach to war criminals. As someone noted in the margins of Sauckel’s file, “So we’re going to hang Sauckel for rounding up slave labor, bur not Speer, who ordered it?” And someone else wrote “Right!” [Sauckel was a blue collar laborer turned Reichsleiter. Speer was an architect].
Same attitude that covered for Blount, McLean, Burgess, Philby,and Cairncross for so long.