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Among U.S. legal experts, there is wide agreement that Saddam Hussein, his Revolutionary Command Council and his military officers should be held accountable for three types of transgressions identified and prosecuted in the Nuremberg trials of German leaders after World War II: crimes against peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes. But since there is no permanent international criminal court, there are questions about who should conduct such prosecutions, what precise charges would be made -- and whether the chief target, Saddam, could be brought to justice...
...Hollywood does nicely with just one. It's decorated in basic white and packed in dry ice. Horses and dogs have wings there, and the flowers speak to God, who is either black or George Burns. When you arrive (by elevator or escalator), a choir as big as a Nuremberg rally greets you. But if you are the prematurely dispatched hero of a film fantasy, you won't stay long. Some dignified gent -- Claude Rains or James Mason -- will serve as celestial flight attendant for a poignant return trip to earth, where you will perform the one deed that makes...
...equation. "The Stasi is not the Gestapo, and Honecker is not Hitler," she says. "Whatever one can say about the Stasi, we are not now confronted with Auschwitz as we were after Hitler." Another Frankfurt law professor, Erhard Denninger, agrees that comparisons with the Nazi era are inexact. "The Nuremberg trials dealt with crimes against humanity and genocide," he argues. "You can't charge the communist regime in East Germany with anything like that...
...peers were divided over whether such trials would constitute justice or revenge. Lord Shawcross, the chief British prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, argued that the bill would be "an indelible blot on every principle of British law and justice." But its supporters deemed enactment morally and legally essential. Citing recent outbreaks of anti-Semitism across Europe, Chief Rabbi Lord Jakobovits warned against sending "a wrong signal to a world seeking reassurance that civilized governments would never again allow such evil to triumph with impunity...
...along with their beaux. Perhaps proving they are tough is as important to them as it is to men. Others have found the spectacle less edifying. One woman at Madison Square Garden listened to Clay's sluice of abuse and said she felt like a Jew at the 1934 Nuremberg rally. Remember, she said, when pop culture was not naughty but nice...