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The Road to Nuremberg
Fine in Very Good jacket, 5 3/4 By 8 1/2`` Btm corners slightly bent in, No other damage. DJ has very slight shelfware. How the Allies finally agreed to try the Nazi leaders, rather than shoot them.
304 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1981
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August 5, 2022
This was a "free shopping at the University book bench" book and I didn't have any expectations going in. It was an interesting account of the bureaucratic and political battles with the US administration in the months leading up to the end of WWII in the European Theater about how to deal with the Nazi War criminals. It's really interesting. The final lesson was one that really hit home for me:
"If there is a broad lesson to be learned from the Nuremberg planning (which avoids the pitfalls of penance), it may be that Americans must somehow discover a sense of precision and limit in foreign relations, without losing the sources of strength contained in their eagerness and optimism. Only thus will the country be able to avoid the dilemma that Herodotus laments after he great conflict of his age:
Of all man's miseries the
bitterest is this:
To know so much and have
control over nothing."
"If there is a broad lesson to be learned from the Nuremberg planning (which avoids the pitfalls of penance), it may be that Americans must somehow discover a sense of precision and limit in foreign relations, without losing the sources of strength contained in their eagerness and optimism. Only thus will the country be able to avoid the dilemma that Herodotus laments after he great conflict of his age:
Of all man's miseries the
bitterest is this:
To know so much and have
control over nothing."
July 28, 2007
I came to this and the other book by Smith from the Ward Churchill archive of footnotes. The central issue at Nurmeberg was two fold: How to get get the Brits, French, and Soviets on board for convicting in steading of just executing Nazi leaders; and how to create retroactive laws by which to perform the convictions given that legally, the Nazis seemed to have broken no laws.
The fact that the US made all this happened tells something not only about law but about way in which humans create nooses, which they think they build for others, to hang themselves.
Bradley Smith is not a lacanian -- but you couldn't tell a lacanian that!
I cannot recall which of the two is the better, but both are dramatic reads in the context of 9/11 and US rampaging.
The fact that the US made all this happened tells something not only about law but about way in which humans create nooses, which they think they build for others, to hang themselves.
Bradley Smith is not a lacanian -- but you couldn't tell a lacanian that!
I cannot recall which of the two is the better, but both are dramatic reads in the context of 9/11 and US rampaging.
June 6, 2012
I had not previously appreciated that the British and indeed a good portion of the American government supported summary execution at the end of WWII -- offering a "hit list" of Germans to be shot on sight. That this did not happen, and that the process of the Nurnberg trials took place was the hard work of the War Department and the State Department. Most particularly the work of Henry Stimson and those working for him. A very interesting story -- the history of morality during this period. At precisely the same time Stimson was making the decision to drop the atomic bomb. (Of course this is even truer of President Truman. An interesting point, FDR was very much in favor of reprisals and in the last days of his life may have been talked over to supporting a trial but it wasn't clear.
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