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concept of crimes against humanity trials (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by hellinkilla@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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I am watching a BBC doc about the Nuremberg trials. It is overall propagandizing against the concept of trying crimes against humanity at all. Due to, as described, the british position: it'll just be another chance for the defendants to present their position to the world so better to hang them and be done with it.

Q: Agree/disagree with the above? Both in the specific instance, and in general.

It was the first, but not the last, such proceeding. What are we learning from subsequent?

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

Stalin was big on trials because of the importance of cementing a specific thing as wrong. It is not merely that the perpetrators needed to be punished, it was equally as important that everyone else understand what they had done and why it was wrong.

Now the problem with that is that the Nuremburg trials were a fucking sham and most of these assholes got off.