Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury...trying the Nazi bastard hierarchy....
Every time I think about WW2, and its' aftermath, I think of this song by Dylan: Dylan lends gravitas to just about anything. And the sixties, when the song was written, were hard times, during which the 'hard rain' fell in the aftermath of World War II. And now back to our regularly scheduled broadcast, the Nurenberg trials. Now, let us further imagine that we have a chance to punish some of the schmucks responsible for the horrors seen at the concentration camps as they were liberated by the Allies, which brings us to Nuremberg. What were the Nuremberg trials? For historians, they were a valiant attempt to do the impossible: hold those Nazis left accountable (among a myriad of other things) for the Holocaust--as well as about a billion was crimes. From the perspective of history, this was a crucial moment where 'some justice' might be meted out for unimaginable crimes against humanity. For the first time in the history of warfare, a new...