This may not be of interest for all of you….. but there similarities in today’s world as there was leading up to WW2 and Hitler.

The new movie “Nuremberg” about the trials is accurate except for the depiction of Harry Truman according to our speaker. I might need to watch it.

There were 13 trials… not just 1.  done in concert with different superpowers….. Russia, Britain, France and the US. 22 German bigwigs were tried in the 1st trial with there being 12 subsequent trials to deal with the lesser collaborators including businesses like the one that developed poisonous gasses. 

The trial at the time was unpopular.  

In 1933 Hitler came to power with only 1 vote majority. It was after Germany had been punished, denied all help and subsequently couldn’t even feed itself after WW1. Hitler was the answer to their woes, coming up with scapegoats…. others to blame. He kept adding pogroms, assessing the world’s reaction with each program introduced. No country reacted. Racial superiority was behind naziism. The master race was typically Northern Europeans….. Scandinavians  and Germans. The rest were “mud”. With every conspiratorial thought, some people will believe.  It was taught in school, the superiority of the master race. He had text books changed to support their beliefs. 

In 1935 Nuremberg Race laws were brought forth…. on superiority, that stripped Jews and homosexuals of all rights. He told the world what he was going to do but nobody did anything. With Krystallnaught, in October of 1938, the Nazis had come up with a global plot saying that Jews were taking over the world.  The Nazis went into bars, paid for plenty of liquor, then the drunks were handed a bunch of nonsense that got them all riled up and consequently then took to the streets attacking Jews. And then, Hitter blamed the Jews for the mess, making them pay for the cleanup.

Germany gobbled up surrounding countries to provide a buffer as well as to take minerals, etc. from them . Hitler sold 10,000 kids of parents that were imprisoned for trumped up reasons predominantly for being Jews….to England. It was called “Kindertransport”.  They then offered 20,000 to the US but the US refused.  He tried to tell the world they were “saving” these children. They sent a ship to Cuba with Jews making them to pay to exit. Once there, the passengers were refused entry because many were diseased, mental patients and prisoners. 

Wannsee conference was “the final solution”…..the systematic, bureaucratic plan to mass-murder the European Jewish population, an event known as the Holocaust. 

Global pandemic after the war world… no food had been grown, the dead bodies of humans and animals were rotting, disease was rampant. 

Truman chose the Stinson Plan as a way to proceed with the trial. The US being the only ones that paid. They wanted everything documented. 

Truman appointed Jackson to be judge but the man had never gone to law school.  

“Genocide” was a word developed after WW2. 

Most countries wanted take the Nazis out and shoot them all. Truman decided magnanimous not vengeance was the way to go, that we must “forgive but never forget”. 

Nazi officers demanded the firing squad but were hanged, some considered for only the lower class of which they were not. They we’re tried in their own town….Nuremberg, their symbol of the Nazi regime 

So many of the Nazis committed suicide incl Hitler.  

“To this day, the trials have influenced how war crimes are tried, not just internationally but also within the jurisdiction of the United States” as quoted off the internet and by the speaker but I believe (and the speaker, a professor, author, from LYNN university) the laws (and society) have regressed dramatically since 2016.