Julius Streicher Quotes
It is a trial within a nation but a trial of victors against the vanquished. Even before the trials started, the victors who are our judges were quite convinced that we were guilty and that we should all pay the price.
Goldensohn, Leon. The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with Defendants and Witnesses. Edited by Robert Gellately, Knopf, 2004, p. 260.
He was a brutal, sadistic war criminal who was assassinated by one of his many enemies in 2000 before he could be brought to trial.
This manual was still in force during the Iraq war 50 years later.
Referring to the Serbian atrocities in Bosnia:
South Africa, with the fall of apartheid, instead of arresting, trying, and sentencing the worst of the old regime, elected a truth commission approach instead.
military tribunals rather than civilian courts The court decided that it was improper to review the activity of the military tribunal at all and never did so. Yamashita was hanged after a very quick, crude military trial with many flaws. The low standards of the tribunal has clouded to this day the rectitude of the verdict and the clarity of the war crimes of which he was accused.
Turkey, under the control of the triumvirate of the 3 Young Turks had massacred almost all of the Armenian population in the area claimed by Turkey. At the end of WWI, there were many demands that those who ordered the policy of a Turkish genocide and those who carried it out by brought to justice—tried and punished. The Sultan had done little if anything to stop the slaughters although he was very weak, Turkey under the Young Turks had also picked the wrong side and allied with the Germans. The Sultan and his Grand Vizier were trying to pick up the pieces and maintain the Ottoman Empire as best they could despite they the fact that they lost control of much of their vast territory. At the Paris Peace Conference, the Grand Vizier virtually admitted the crimes and committed the Turkish government to determining the guilty and bringing them to justice. He actually had 50 of the worst offenders arrested (See {620595}.). However, there were a few tried and one governor of a province was hanged and a few others received short jail sentences. Talaat, the worst of The Young Turks regarding the genocide, escaped to Germany. But he was tracked by a surviving Armenian who assassinated Talaat. The assassin was acquitted by a sympathetic German court which ruled that the extermination of the assassin’s family had been so traumatic that temporary insanity relieved the assassin of criminal responsibility.
Abu Ghraib was the major prison in Iraq during the Iraq War. American military committed many crimes on prisoners ranging from murder to sexual humiliation. The actual perpetrators claimed that the higher ranks of officers knew what was ongoing and provided the policies, rules and culture of the prison. The president and the Vice President many thought were the officers responsible and violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Their administration had issued a legal memorandum that for the first time in American history would allow some kinds of torture of prisoners in the War on Terror. A few enlisted personnel were punished and a general was transferred but no senior military or civilian personnel were held responsible or punished.
Adolf Eichmann was a German Nazi war criminal who had been responsible for the murder of millions of people. At the end of WWII, he had escaped Germany and was living in South America. Israeli agents found him, kidnapped him, and brought him to Israel. There he received a very public trial, was found guilt, and executed. In the War on Terror at the beginning of the 21st century, the key terrorists that were captured in Afghanistan were sent to a special prison base in the American part of Cuba. They were held there but at first received no trials or hearings. They were not prisoners of war, and not criminals where there were legal procedures for handling them. This was a new area. Some argued that they should all get trials. The Supreme court ruled that they at least had to get hearings. The correct handling was a major debate.
Julius Streicher was a member of the Nazi Party, the Gauleiter (regional leader) of Franconia and a member of the Reichstag, the national legislature. He was the founder and publisher of the virulently antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine. The publishing firm was financially very successful and made Streicher a multi-millionaire.
