“Senator Robert Taft also believed that it was wrong to put Goering and Goebbels on trial.
Senator Robert Taft was a nutball.”
Senator Taft didn’t like the idea of a world court. It’s still a silly idea. The people of Germany could have tried them, not the “world community” and the “crimes against humanity” crowd.
No, Senator Taft claimed that the Nazis were being "unfairly" tried by "ex post facto statutes" - as if the illegality of mass murder was some newfangled legal invention.
The people of Germany could have tried them
Germany did not regain legal sovereignty until May 1955.
Should the victims of these slime have been forced to wait 10 years for justice, only to have these murderers tried under a constitution that banned capital punishment?
Taft was a sickeningly obtuse moron - a fitting subject for a book "written" by JFK.
Good point. I’ve heard some conservatives object to the Nuremberg trials on principle.