Word: nuremberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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North may have told the truth, and he may be a scapegoat for his superiors. Nevertheless, his defense that he was just following orders has been indefensible since the Nuremberg trials...
...client's defense. Sullivan challenged the Senator, saying that Inouye purported to be listening to the American people. Some 20,000 favorable telegrams were sitting on his desk, the lawyer protested, and that represented the people's will. In the face of such popular acclaim, allusions to the Nuremberg trials in connection with North were offensive, Sullivan said. The appeal was successful, and Inouye dropped the analogy...
...Weizsacker father was tried by an American tribunal at Nuremberg, and sentenced to five years in prison, for assisting in the deportation of 6000 French Jews to a Nazi death camp. To this day, the younger von Weizsacker--who served among his father's lawyers at Nuremberg--insists that his father did not know that the Nazis were planning to kill those Jews who were deported...
Loewenheim, the author of several books on Germany, said von Weizsacker assisted his father, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, in authoring untruthful memoirs of the Baron's war years. The historian also said that the president--who served as his father's lawyer during the Nuremberg trials--claims to this day that his father was unaware of the existence of death camps in the face of what Loewenheim called overwhelming evidence to the contrary...
...your story on the deportation of Karl Linnas ((ETHICS, April 20)), you ask, "Should the U.S. use Soviet evidence against accused war criminals?" The answer is contained in a B'nai B'rith report that says, "Just as the leading lawyers at the Nuremberg trials ((discovered)) . . . no American court found that the Soviet Union provided false evidence. Neither was it found that any Soviet witness lied in his or her testimony...