What objections were made to the Nuremburg trials after WWII?
Most people know that after the close of the Second World War, the victorious Allied powers put some of the Third Reich's most heinous leaders on trial for war crimes. In what became known as the the Nuremberg trials , the Allied Tribunal convicted 19 defendants and acquitted three. In the process, the world saw and heard graphic evidence of the Nazis' worst war crimes, including f ootage of Nazi concentration camps and detailed description of Hitler's inhuman "Final Solution." The trials were widely considered a victory for democracy and the rule of law - and a warning to future dictators that the civilized world would not tolerate hateful behavior. But not everyone felt that way. Just as there are Republicans who object to the Democrats' "Jan. 6th Committee" investigating the Capital insurrection of 2021 (even as they push for investigations of Anthony Fauci and Hunter Biden's laptop), many critics opposed the work of the Nuremburg tribunal.