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I don’t want to start anything, but the government seemed to be very careful to avoid any appearance of anti-Semitism. All, if not most of the government lawyers, and the judge were all Jews.
The Soviet Union by that time was no ally of the US. The Rosenberg’s were communist spies that’s why they got the juice. The fact that they were Jewish had nothing to do with it. IMHO.

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We were at best *intense* competitors with the Soviets. That does NOT make spying on their behalf -- even against our interests -- treason.

While you do hang enemy spies during wartime -- because we had never declared a war on the Soviets, but had in fact fought the most recent "official" war alongside of them, they wre not our *official* enemy.