wwii

Thoughts

Slacker defense

A few defense lawyers inverted the arguments of the prosecution to assert that the Germans' authoritarian mindset and obedience to the state exonerated them from any personal guilt. Seems a little crazy to make the defense be “our culture values authority and obedience therefore we are not responsible for

Thoughts

Jim Crow at Nuremberg

Both the United States—concerned that its “Jim Crow” system of racial segregation not be labeled a crime against humanity—and the Soviet Union wanted to avoid giving an international court jurisdiction over a government’s treatment of its own citizens Jim Crow was the inspiration for the racial laws