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John Visher's avatar

Operation paperclip moved tens of thousands of Nazis from Germany to the United States. The Nuremberg trials were a show trial. The Nazis were the victors in World War II. They took over the United States.

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Jaime Jessop's avatar

I agree with other commenters here. The Nuremberg trials were largely performative. They were needed at the time to show the people that 'justice must be done' - the people expected it and they were happy with the ritualised performance whereby the villains were ostensibly held to account. A moral ethical medical code was born of the Nuremberg trials, which shone brightly on paper but which was promptly ignored by all governments in 2020. At Nuremberg, the powers that be fried the smaller fish generally. The bigger fish set up shop elsewhere and started planning the next stage of the Third Reich - the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

We no longer expect justice to be done because we have been conditioned not to expect it. But we have not been so conditioned that we, the people, will not DEMAND it and ensure that it is done, by ourselves if necessary, rather than by our feckless, corrupt, complicit leaders. It just takes enough people willing to stand up and say: "We want REAL Nuremberg trials this time, not show-pieces".

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