Blind Obedience and Denial: The Nuremberg Defendants Sangster Andrew
A revealing yet accessible examination of the Nuremberg trial, and most crucially all 23 men who stood accused, not just the most infamous--Speer, Hess, and Gring. This account sets the scene by…
Specifikacia Blind Obedience and Denial: The Nuremberg Defendants Sangster Andrew
A revealing yet accessible examination of the Nuremberg trial, and most crucially all 23 men who stood accused, not just the most infamous--Speer, Hess, and Gring. This account sets the scene by explaining the procedures, the legal context, and the moments of hypocrisy in the Allies' prosecution--ignoring the fact that the Katyń massacre was a Soviet crime and overlooking carpet bombing.Author Andrew Sangster discusses how the word "Holocaust" was not used until long after the trial, probably due to Russian objection as they had lost many more people, and because the Allies generally were not innocent of anti-Semitism themselves, especially Russia and Vichy France. However, the defendants to a person immediately recognized that this was the singular issue which placed them on the steps of the gallows, and their various defenses on this charge are therefore crucial to