Nuremberg Trial of Nazi Criminals
Pat, Jacob
Nuremberg Trial of Nazi Criminals Should the Court Trying the Nazis Be "Decent"? By Jacob Pat Secretary of the Jeuith Labor Committee W„ RITING in The New Leader on "War Crimes *ir<i...
...This is a four-footed Nazi...
...Chamberlin would' like to have the judges remember that not only have the Germans murdered millions, burnt children iu furnaces, beat women to death, locked hundreds of thousands in poison-chambers, but we Americans, too, have displayed brutality: we hurled atom bombs at the Japanese...
...Our main duty is, though, to try the Nazi hangmen...
...The British, Russians, and Americans cannot alone be the judges of Ihe Nazis...
...The tub is red...
...I chill at the atmosphere of indifference that permeates the lines of Chamberlin's article...
...The coining trial of the Nazis should certainly be sound, convincing and have rules snd regulations...
...That, however, is not the point...
...Arriving at Dachau, the first ftaup of liberators, upon seeing the charred bodies of Jews, the gas chain-ben, the typhus-stricken Jewish victims, brought the few dozen surviving Nazis from Dachau and wreaked revenge upon them...
...13 as the day on which the debate snoutd begirt...
...He desires, therefore, that German liberals be'among the judges so as to balance justice...
...That is a dog whom a Nazi professor of murder had taught to bite human limbs while the victim was still alive...
...We must be fair to the Kramers and the Himmlers...
...they'll hold their own...
...ANTI-POLL TAX IILL IN DANGER • Tbe fight on the poll tax moves into final stages of constant pressure on party leadership iii the Senate to set aii early dale for debate...
...Upon my desk is a third photo: depicting a dog in Dachau...
...The same Major who, according to Chamberlin, set an example of decency in court, defended the Belsen rogue...
...The French fighters did not, previous to their trial of the German cannibals, need any statutes and codes...
...Another photo depicts men shot on a Belli...
...By Jacob Pat Secretary of the Jeuith Labor Committee W„ RITING in The New Leader on "War Crimes *ir<i Punishment," • William Henry Chamberlin urges that the eeurt trying the Nazis be decent...
...We felt, at the time, that Major Winwood ought to be placed on the same plane as Commander Kramer...
...Russians winnged the kulaks...
...This time the dead on the field were Germans...
...There's no doubt about it...
...They had only a human conscience...
...As the downpour of rain relieves the humidity ef a hot day, so revenge washes from the face of the world the bloody Nazi fttk...
...All of Ihis is linked with Chamberlin's article, in which he voices' uneasiness at the possibility that our' trial of the Nazis might not be confined within the framework of justice, since the conqueror' will be placing the conquered on trial...
...Major Thomas Winwood defended the com-' mander of the camp, which he compared to the British camps in the Boer War, I DO NOT take up the cudgel here for the British...
...that entire Nasi groups, as for example Gestapo men, SS men, should not be collectively tried, but that, rather, individuals be tried for concrete personal crimes—acts that have shocked everyone, and mainly that the court must be "fair and decent...
...His four "conditions" infuriated ,/iie...
...an example which ought to serve as guide for the judges and attorneys at Nuremberg...
...They saw only the heap of dead...
...It left something of the psng experienced by the millions in the desth csmps, when the Nazis drove them—nude—to the fire slakes, and the world criminally remained silent...
...I do, however, take up the cudgel for the millions of Jews who died martyr-deaths in the camps...
...No, this fs not a dog...
...He demands that the Germans and Japanese should not be tried for deeds that may be regarded as traitorous acts...
...The newspaper La ('roiiica (Crown) is said to be lending supporj...
...We ought to Learn a lesson from Major Winwood...
...Friends of democracy ileclere that the moves have been made largely to embarrass the progressive regime of President Biistanieute and to distract popular attention from the reform program of his government...
...The committee has derided to bring' all possible pressure on President Truman to obtain bipartisan agreement on that day, and to urge individual'Senators tt> insist on a' Vote for ¦ Inline, to give the majority supporting the bill an opportunity* to" vote on its nieflts...
...It must, though, also have atmosphere, force, so that our children's children wijl always remember it...
...This Major is cited by Chamberlin as a model of fine administration of the courts...
...We read this with disgust...
...The "judges," the avengers, were not alone...
...The photo was taken at Dachau...
...I retreat, hurt and grieved, and eye the three photos' on my desk...
...Now he stands alongside a tub of water and drinks after the murder...
...Chamberlin wishes to refashion (lull ml...
...It is necessary, therefore, to be' "fair" to the Germans...
...Anti Semitiim In Souffi America • Despite the tight censorship In Paraguay, Worldoner freit reports that a wave of anti-Semitism is causing oppressive measures...
...to the "crusade...
...The faulty aspect of Chainberlin's article is that he minimizes the signifl-cance of the trial, stifles its world importance...
...Our heroic ghetto martyrs, tortured brothers and sisters, our burnt children, our 6,000,000 murdered, all t>f Israel that had been annihilated by the Nazis in the furnaces of the Belsens . . . they—think of it!—¦ were the "dregs of the ghettos," and the Nazi cannibals and hangmen ought to go unpunished, because they cleansed Europe of Jewish filth...
...In Kruador, too, though les« open, anti-Semitic propaganda has been manifest...
...a dog cannot •loop so low...
...As an example, Chamberlin cites the case of Major Thomas Winwood, defense counsel of the concentrstion camp st Belsen-Bergen, where the Nazis buried alive, burnt to death, suffocated tens of thousands of Jewish women and murdered thousands of Jewish children...
...He repeats, too, that the British, 'during the Boer War, established concentration camps, without giving the victims a fair trial...
...Of course, the trial ought to be an open one, an honest and just one...
...Why do I write th'is now...
...In his article, he sets forth, four demands, witfi regard to the conduct of tee court, ;i , • The cpnjents of that article, the tone permeating U. the attitude which the author assumes with regard to the Nazi bandits, , the comparisons the article makw, the author's uneasiness with regard {o the wrongs that n\ight, God forbid,, be committed with reference to the chief henchmen of the Maidaneks -»1( this ja intensely perturbing, Yes, Chamberlin fears that the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi bandits is indecent, sot refined, and not in accord with the teg*i code...
...Should the plan for a long Christmas holiday materialize, an end <>f session filibuster may postpone the passage of the bill indefinitely...
...Through the trial of the Nazis the human conscience ought to be aroused...
...that within the sphere of law and human conscience, the lesders of the murder legions ere being tried, the monsters of the Msidsneks snd the Treblinkas, those who burnt alive sn entire people, those who hurled innocent children into the funaces—the masters of the Oswiecimi and Li dices...
...One photo reveals a field at the Swiss bonier beyond Ami.' It portrays1 the captured Germans digging a huge grave in the field, into which are to be placed twenty-two Hitler youths, SS men, who had been ¦hot by'the French underground youths at the time of the liberation of the district...
...He would like to have the judges bear" in'mind that 'the Russians also h'sve concentration camps, that the Germans were not the only ones to maintain them...
...Americans had atom bombs...
...To avert this the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax insists upon Nov...
...Alongside a Urge, bloody tub stands a dog, a four-footed Nazi, sipping...
...rules of full human justice...
...That dog devoured Jews and Jewish children...
...Thank God that the French resistance and the American GI's did not know of Chamberlin's four demands for a decent court to try the Nszis, and that they carried out their sentences on the bloodhounds according to the...
...On ray desk there are several photos, taken during the first hours following HitlerV complete defeat...
...order to avoid this, the author has, as stated, formulated four (sedition* for the coming trial...
...The British, too, maintained concentration ramps...
...Similarly in Peru an anti Semitic campaign has been launched by an organization known a< Justicia Racial Peruana, which, has been attacking fiercely the Jews living In Peru...
...The canine is smeared with Jewish blood...
...They wanted to see nothing else...
...They had neither laws nor codes...
...The world ought to know, hear and see that it is Nazism that is On trial...
...Commander Kramer, by declaring that those murdered in the Belsen camps were the "dregs of the ghettos...
...I felt deeply ' humiliated upon reading Chamberlin's article, calling for a decent court ,to try the Nazia...
...With them was human justice...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 45
