Victor's Law
A book-length indictment was returned this week against 24 top Nazis. The legal principle behind it was basically new, grave with future implications. The principle: that individuals of a defeated nation may be held legally responsible for such public acts as wars of aggression and the politics and propaganda which precede them. Obviously, any victor might see comparable crimes in the policies of any vanquished nation.
World War II had not been merely a war between nations and ideologies. It had been, preeminently, a war between good & evil. Because the people of the world saw it that way, they...
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