Some Justice at Nuremberg--what (probably) you never wanted to know about the post Nazi bastard WW2 trials, ONE.

 

NOTE:  please accept my apology Dear Reader, for any who may have ventured forth on this blog of late.  It has been a long time since I last posted...my mother died, and I decided to live briefly on Venus.  But, I have returned, and hopefully you will still come along on some new adventures, even if they are bitter--as this entry most certainly is....

I have written, in this blog, many warnings about absolute power.  I have also dealt with the problems that come into focus, when individuals are seduced by that power, to the detriment of plebs.  So, there probably isn't that much left to say, excepting the fact that this seems to be an inexhaustible subject, due to the endless samples that continually present themselves.

What I'd like to do in this entry, is to look a little bit at beginnings, and endings.  Hopefully, you might see a few parallels, and forgive me pointing them out along the way.  This is only my POV, however, please remember that.  But, first, a quote:

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I am he as you are he, as you are me and we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly
I'm crying

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo-goo g'joob

Mister City policeman sitting pretty little policemen in a row
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run
I'm crying, I'm crying
I'm crying, I'm crying

Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo-goo g'joob

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come, you get a tan from standing in the english rain
I am the eggman, they are the egg men
I am the walrus, goo-goo g'joob, g'goo goo g'joob

Expert textpert choking smokers
Don't you think the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty, see how they snied
I'm crying

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar-Allan-Poe
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo-goo g'job, g'goo goo g'joob
Goo goo g'joob, g'goo goo g'joob, g'goo...


--The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"

Alright, so maybe they were on psychedelics. It’s entirely possible that they took the holy acid tablets before sitting down to write this song. But it does make a good point about conformity and solidarity. – Two very dangerous things.

A dictator slinks into power with a lot of noise about national pride, nastily targeting the social other, and furious hatered. Especially hate.  And why hate the unknown? All you have to do is ask the question: annd anssuage that fear, is to ansk. 

There aother questions however: anrr you taking white mens jobs from them? Are you anttacking our religious beliefs, or do you just hate them? Them there is thee terrible question:  who are ‘they’?

There are those individuals who, in history, have tried sometimes successfully, sometimes unsuccessfully, to take control of Own little corner of planet Earth. Everyone especially historians try to look for similarities in each case but it’s difficult. Everyone is different so therefore every case of absolute power Corrupting absolutely has to be taken with a grain of salt.

What makes A would be dictator so dangerous, is that he usually says things that appeals to people--lower taxes, this group is to blame for your problems, I'll fight for your rights, Memorializing by gone days that never existed in the first place,. Case in point, every single time the orange haired mollusk speaks to the people, he is surrounded by, practically enveloped by multiple American flags. He is so very obvious. It’s almost sad.

I constantly ask myself the question how did we get to this. Are people so disenfranchised, disillusioned, and downtrodden? I very much fear the answer is yes. 

At the end of the day, it's all about power--you give it away, and he takes your money, freedom of expression, and personal we privacy.  

TELL ME, DEAR READER, DOES ANYONE VALUE THEIR PRIVACY THESE DAYS? ARE THEY EVEN AWARE OF ITS' DELICATE BALANCE WITH DEMOCRACY?

I strongly believe that’s where it always starts the lack of personal freedom, and the lack of free articulation. It is the fact that the government can come into your home, come into your bedroom, come into your mind, that Is the Hallmark of a truly terrifying situation.

Let’s also not forget the fact that possibly the next development are going to be individuals turning in their friends, Children being encouraged to rat out their parents or siblings or friends, and a new generation growing up under this type of government.

All of this has happened before, and will undoubtedly happen again.  most of the time it has been of Short duration, but we can track it all the way to ancient Rome and probably earlier if we wanted to make the effort to find out.

The classic example, the society, the culture that always presents itself to these various descriptions is Nazi Germany, But we don’t appear to have learned the lesson we don’t appear to have understood or taken to heart the horrors of the holocaust. And believe me it has happened in American history. I referred to the near genocide of the American Indian. Also let us not forget controlled breeding, a by product of eugenics, which was  which was used in most western countries right up until the 1970s. And if you think that the United States is exempt from this, and if you don’t know about the eugenics movement let Me, tell you, it did happen here. In fact, we’ve provided the example followed by Nazi Germany. I’m not just making a statement. It has all been documented. This was a regime that took human Hair, the Hair of concentration, camp, prisoners, victims, witty intention of making socks for their German soldiers, among other things.

Antisemitism ran virumentt in this country, gaining in both violence aid brutality from the nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.  One might even say it exists into the present day. But that is all for another entry. Dear reader, you have to be vigilant, WE have to be vigilant so that it never happens again, and from my point of view, it must never happen in this country because like or not free speech is yet here, and the American ‘white lives matter” (GAG) factor is certainly exorcising that tradition, right here in the low u s of a. 

.  BTW, Did you know that there were Nazis in the United States before during and after World War II? If you say oh well, you’re just saying that, then you’re wrong. I refer you to a very good American experience documentary on PBS called “ nazi town USA”.

https://watch.amazon.com/detail?gti=amzn1.dv.gti.4b49f97c-17ce-4fb7-ac3e-e28e6d601166&territory=US&ref_=share_ios_movie&r=

So now that we know that there were Nazis in America, and there’s still are by the way during World War II end before World War II, except then we would classify them as white supremacist,. Now that we are aware of this fact, I think we can move onto some basics, number one who is sitting in the center chair and do they have a conscience ? Number two who is basically unlikable in a one on one situation, but when it comes to a group, this person suddenly becomes magically irresistible? Three why does a cult of personality grow up around Syd individual, thus imbuing them with God only knows what. I wondered, dear reader have you taken a gander at the news real photographs of Hitler? And masses of adoring men, women, and children, all waving that hideous flag? If you have, and if you’ve been as appalled as the rest of humanity, and you know that, and sometimes in some cases, they’re simply is no logic it defies.augury (Sorry, I can never resist an opportunity to miss quote the bard). 

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There is an absolutely wonderful series on Netflix that does a great job of illustrating the evolution of one person into a role of an absolute power The link is below:

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=eee2bc57351991e6&hl=en-us&sxsrf=AE3TifPws84in-BpH4EqhotMmgZuQXnxzg:1751375505639&q=How+to+Become+a+Tyrant&si=AMgyJEs9DArPE9xmb5yVYVjpG4jqWDEKSIpCRSjmm88XZWnGNSsmZOIRCVWQNWxffshawwN2sJZT9A4Q5gnhGWQS1hJcwq3TSD1HC_lRI0WqpDKRKSWYuzd8zk7Ackq_69HftKr0-BYmOJ-cPdw5TRSZ2J5KkdHzsFaeDPJ6IFIhvI-dhM-NkEpTVvu8hukc1a1lAKNRPDZLtsKJ55myIgFAHipBlA45iVEFI3s9_gJNv9qEoiMolvc%3D&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiW94aX3puOAxU7I0QIHQVeLhkQ18AJegQIEhAB&biw=430&bih=734&dpr=3#ebo=0

If you’d like to watch it, it is a gruesome story of famous cases where individuals clearly Lost their senses along with their empathy as they went to dwell in the land of Oz, where absolute power rules absolutely. But you should be able to navigate your way to the series if you wanna watch it.

On another note, there is a classic work delving into the evolution of the police state. It’s by journalist Hannah ARENDT, one of the people who also attended the Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in the early 60s. 

 https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Totalitarianism-Introduction-Anne-Applebaum/dp/0063354489/ref=asc_df_0063354489?mcid=0494f6f4ff6633efbb64de086e322bb2&hvocijid=16776442606206250747-0063354489-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=721245378154&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16776442606206250747&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1014248&hvtargid=pla-2281435179258&psc=1

All right, the story I’m about to tell you, of the Nurenberg trials, is of endings. But we have to go a little bit before then, in order to appreciate, in context, the path – the journey made by Germany, from Democratic Republic, to a police state. I’m gonna give you for reference another documentary known as “degenerate art”. 

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Where does the story of the Nuremberg trials begin--with Hitler's rise to power, I suppose..  How were so many people swayed by this silver tongued devil? Well, it's a vexed question, complicated by the 'perfect storm' of the early 1930s.  

• Global economic depression
• Devaluation of the German mark. 
• The loss of power and influence wielded by Germany's industrial/banking leaders
• A universal hatred of the Versailles treaty that ended WW1. 
• The adept use of using the social other, or others --individuals who were dangerous to the state:  Members of the Jewish faith, members of the academic profession who disagreed strongly with Hitler and his minions, shit, anyone who disagreed, professor, leftist thinkers, Roma, dissidents, and whoever else pissed off Der Furher. We must also not forget artists for many different branches of the arts.

The idea behind degenerate art was meant for exploration of the mind instead of what you see with the naked aisle. In other words, a roadmap to your emotions and subconscious thought for my taste I’ve never been extraordinarily fond of that type of art. I am conventional in always, but one can be impressed by the way in which people can project their deepest most personal thoughts in such an abstract fashion.

What the Nazis were attempting to do was to suppress human thought. The closest equivalent I can come to that experience is always been found in George Orwell’s 1984, where the society was continuously under the thumb of ““ big Brother. There was a panel in every room of every home and the chief police force were literally called the thought police there was nowhere anyone would be safe, not even in your own mind. I always think of that when I think about the Nazi movement, it’s not enough to control your body. It’s not enough to control your environment. They have to control your mind. Which is why you saw so many children turning on their parents and reporting them during the Nazi rain in Germany during the 1930s.

Today we are learning ever more about the hidden pockets of World War II. We are learning about more experiments and more killings or murders that the Nazis committed, and some pretty questionable decisions made by our governments, the allied governments, during the war and exemplar of the ladder is the use of methamphetamine drugs for parachutists, or those paratroopers who were meant to land behind enemy lines during the monumental invasion of Normandy, latter known as D-Day. 

It is also well known that not the doctors kept Hitler on a very interesting regimen of drugs just about any drug you can think of with the exception being LSD, which wasn’t invented yet on the tab or literally in the syringe. It is my hope that in learning of these kind of activities, we will hopefully avoid them in the future. I just don’t know. 

It’s difficult to know just when the Nazi became one of the she used to be characterized as you were evil indication of Mein Kampf 

There was widespread lawlessness and a penchant for violence of varying types, street thugs as the most visible--in the case of Hitler's strange-oids, this last function was provided by Ernst Rohm and his of brown shirted bimbo troopers.  It was their job to terrorise everyone into submission.  Indeed, they succeeded in this endeavour.

In spite of there warnings, The Nazi rise to power came out of nowhere for most Germans, because they weren't paying attention. The kept listening to the propaganda that painted the Nazis und Der Dude as the saving  of the German people.  You have to understand here, Dear Reader, that the German on the street so to speak, resented the asinine conditions set upon them after the end of WW1.  The most bone-headed being war reparations which were to be paid by a country with few resources—and I do mean little to no resources.  Question Dear Reader:  how the hell was Germany to pay reparations with no money?

Yeah, Stephen Foster said it best, he really did.

Oh Dear.  I guess no one thought about how Germany could pay when they had no capital. however, do not despair! America to the rescue! US banks loan the money to Germany (interest), which in turn helps to pay the reparations demanded by the Versailles treaty, which in turn leaves other countries vulnerable because their economies are tied to the American and German, etc. etc. etc.

kaboom.

Economic fruit salad.  It's not funny though, because it means unemployment, homelessness, and hard times.

In the second part of this lengthy post, we'll get to the Nazi rise to power,as well as the development of certain projects and programs, which beggar even the present day imagination--such as Lebensborn, and T-4.

The Trial

It all began with President FDR--well sort of--but it was an idea supported by Harry S. Truman, his successor..

He and the other Allied powers wanted to try the higher surviving members of the Nazi party. The idea was to construct a trial for the first time that would take into account primarily “ crimes against humanity“. Believe it or not, this was a revolutionary construct at the time, no one had ever attempted such a trial before.

The idea was to have a series of judges from the different victorious combatqnts sitting in judgment of the leaders of the Nazi party – those who were still alive. Such an event was possible given the German's penchant for documenting everrything--and I do mean anything. This presented a unique challenge for the prosecution, which proofs to use, and which to disregard. In addition, the prosecution had a plethora of victims waiting to testify as to the Nazi practice of “evacuating“ millions of innocent Jewish men, women, and children to their death. However, while the number of six million people of the Jewish faith were systematically murdered, there were others who met their violent demise at the hands of the Nazi thugs. The actual number of murdered innocents actually extended into unimaginable numbers. Millions upon millions of people. In fact, we'll never know the actual amount of Jews, homosexuals, Roma, political enemies, and anyone who pissed off Hitler and his gang of psychos.

The trials took place in a city special to the Nazi party because this is where all of the political rallies were held for the mad son of a bitch Adolf Hitler and his cronies. Miraculously, the courthouse in Nurenberg did not get destroyed by the thousands of bombs dropped on that city. it was therefore the logical place to hold these proceedings. I should also note, that the English Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was not generally in favor of a lengthy trial. He thought that all of the defendants of the first trial, and yes, there were several, should be shot without due process of law against the first wall That presented itself. This was counterintuitive to the purpose of the Nurenberg trials – it was deemed necessary for these particular defendants to face a capital punishment. The crimes they perpetrated against innocence was beyond measure. it could be argued that capital punishment was perhaps to lenient the punishment.

Potentially all defendants faced death by hanging. If for some reason, the sentence of death was not appropriate to either the individual or the crime, they faced along prison term.

The Nazis represented at the Nuernberg trials were as follows:

Martin Bormann (DAD--dead as a doornail at the time of the trial, or so it was hoped)

     --served as secretary to Hitler, literally the hound at the gate of Hell.  He was dead as a dodo when the war ended (we hope).

Karl Dönitz

Ole Karl was one of the highest echelons of Hitler's government--a grand admiral of the fleet. It was primarily his job to have his submarines attack Allied convoys, attempting to re-supply their troops--a slightly important task.  He decided upon a tactic nicknamed the 'wolf pack,' or Rudeltaktik.  

Following Hitler's demise, he was named interim 'inheritor' of the Reich.  He was later convicted at the trial, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Hans Frank

     --governor of certain occupied territories to the East, the "General Government."

Wilhelm Frick

Hans Fritzsche

Walther Funk

Hermann Göring

       --literally Hitler's right hand, although that position has a rapidly revolving door.  And yet, his position was definitely within the top five men who were closest to the dingbat.

Rudolf Hess

     --For a time, regarded as Hitler's second.  This standing was challenged, by the other sycophants, as Hess' sanity clearly deteriorated (he once gave Goering a set of pots and pans with which to cure gout).

Uh, Umm.  Nope, nothing to say to that. 

Alfred Jodl

Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Wilhelm Keitel
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
Robert Ley
Konstantin von Neurath
Franz von Papen
Erich Raeder
Joachim von Ribbentrop--Hitler's foreign minister.  

-----Interesting guy, if you like the fact that a man with this immense power began his professional life as a champagne salesman.  It's also believed that he had an affair with Wallace Simpson!  But we'll never know about that for sure.

Yeah, that's Wallace, the former King of England, and Ribbentrop's boss.  She and her dethroned honey went to Germany on their honeymoon.

OK.  Sure.  Uh huh.  I mean, what newlyweds wouldn't want to have tea with hitler?

Alfred Rosenberg
Fritz Sauckel
Hjalmar Schacht
Baldur von Schirach
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Albert Speer

     

-I've already written a bit about this guy, and don't really want to revisit this unpleasant individual who successfully saved his life with believable fantasies regarding his lack of involvement with the so-called 'final solution to the Jewish question' (Gods, how I absolutely hate that description for a policy of genocide.  Talk about grotesque).  Thus, I refer you to that earlier entry. https://penelopeloom.blogspot.com/2024/04/grima-wormtongue-king-of-sycophants-aka.html

Julius Streicher 

     --Publisher of a rag entitled "Der Schturmer."  "The Storm." A horrible paper, responsible for spreading hate, principally aimed at the Jews.  A hateful little f*&^er.

...who I don't want to waste another nano second on.

Herman Goerng and Alper Spear were perhaps the most important defendants of the entire trial. Noting the behavior of each of these men, who were in fact, intimate of Hitler, gives us true insight into the Nazi hierarchy. On the one hand goering was rather jovial, not taking the seriousness of the trial into context. His joviality was not only misplaced but terrifying.

Albert Speer, on the other hand sad again and again that the entire Nazi party should be held accountable for these crimes against humanity. What he said was “we all share a common responsibility”

Now, what the hell does that mean?

It meant that Spear among other defendants should advocate for themselves by arguing that they knew nothing about the concentration camps. That the unimaginable brutality of the concentration camps was essentially hidden from the German people. This became a common tactic of official and the ordinary citizenry of Germany. Therefore, in some fashion, they construed the Nuernberg trials as an elaborate form of victory by the Allied powers over the German people.

To indicate that Spear knew nothing about these exterminations, or "evacuations," as they were typically referred to by the Nazis, is an exercise in stupidity. For the last 2 1/2 years of the war, Albert Speer was in charge of munitions. It was his responsibility to make sure that the German army was adequately supplied of both weaponry, bullets, and in some cases labor. And this way it gets truly disgraceful, because who were constructing these items answer: concentration, camp prisoners. It was later reported by survivors, that the condition in spares factories was inhumane. Since during the trial, spare maintained his relative, innocence and ignorance of these conditions is, again, ridiculous. In this historians opinion, he was only trying to save his life.