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Seventy years after Nuremberg, global justice is still a work in progress | Philippe Sands | Comment is free | The Guardian

21.11.15

Seventy years after Nuremberg, global justice is still a work in progress | Philippe Sands | Comment is free | The Guardian: “Four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law,” chief prosecutor Robert Jackson told the eight judges. That the defendants were not simply lined up and shot, as Winston Churchill would have preferred, reflected, as Jackson put it, “one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason”. He recognised the privilege, responsibility and risks of such a trial, that the wrongs to be punished were “calculated … malignant … and … devastating”, articulating a hope that civilisation might never again tolerate such actions being ignored or repeated.


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