Couple things: 1) Many Russians deserved a similar fate. They did not receive it. 2) Contrast this with the Atlantic Charter, which is a rough summary of Anglo-American civilization, including the idea that ten guilty men should go free rather than prosecute one innocent man 3) There was no real attempt to try the repatriated 4) They were not primarily wanted for crimes against mankind, but for crimes against the Soviet Union and 5) The end of the war should have been a time to forgive, and Nuremberg should never have happened. It was a travesty [commented on by Goering at the time] that the Russians actually had the bald-faced hypocrisy at the show trials to declare the Nazi invasion of Poland a war-crime. How could we possibly try anyone for that without trying the Russians involved in the rape of Poland -- some of whom were judges -- as well?
The Japanese military were every bit as evil as the Nazis. Our policy toward Japan was saner and ultimately more productive. We should not have given Stalin what he wanted. It was an injustice that was not mitigated by the fact that many of the repatriates were guilty.
2. True.
3. True.
4. Quite right, though often A = B.
5. I agree Nuremberg was a travesty. The German courts should have been reconstituted and the Nazi war criminals tried in them. With, no doubt, subtle (or not) hints to the German courts by the occupying powers that the accused had better be convicted.