A Whole People'
al., Bradley F. Smith et
'A Whole People' THE ROAD TO NUREMBERG by Bradley F. Smith Basic Books. 303 pp. $13.95. AUSCHWITZ AND THE ALLIES by Martin Gilbert Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 368 pp. $15.95. in his defense of...
...It does not tell us—what book can or ever could?—how Auschwitz and all the other Hitler horrors came to be in a "Christian" country twenty centuries after the crucifixion of Christ or where the ultimate responsibility for them lay (and still lies...
...Martin Gilbert's book, Auschwitz and the Allies, gives the stupendous lie to the neo-Nazi claim that the genocide of Jews has been exaggerated...
...Would he have said that about the Germany that produced, accepted, and preponderantly supported National Socialism...
...Milton Mayer (Milton Mayer, the roving editor of The Progressive, is the author of "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 19331945...
...President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted "the Germans" punished...
...Cooler heads, notably Henry Stimson's, prevailed...
...His Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, wanted even the children of the Nazi activists deported...
...So the show trial of Nuremberg was staged, with the pretense that there was (or at least in the future would be) such a thing as international law binding sovereign nations...
...Auschwitz was the grisliest milestone on the road to Nuremberg...
...The British wanted the Nazi leaders summarily executed...
...These two books are among the most recent documents that keep coming, and keep coming, in connection with Nazi Germany...
...Each in its way is excellent, each indispensable not to the resolution of Burke's dilemma, but to its continuing deliberation...
...The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg was an American idea and, essentially, an American show...
...Is it possible to devise a scheme in which a defeated nation—its leaders, its followers— can receive anything but the burlesque of a trial at the hands of the victors...
...No wonder the "Nuremberg process" was, and remains, a case of long-faced hysteria...
...in his defense of the American colonies Edmund Burke told the British parliament that he did not know how to draw an indictment against a whole people...
...Here we learn in exhaustive detail that Auschwitz was the all-time triumph of human bestiality—of technological bestiality...
Vol. 46 • August 1982 • No. 8
