Murray Bernays person
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War Department host_asserted
“Justice. The secretary passed FDR's tough marching orders to draw up a new handbook on Germany to his aide. And guess who his aide was? None other than John McCloy, who in turn passed the problem of war crimes prosecution to a specialist on…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 25:20
Murray Bernays funded
Nuremberg trials host_asserted
“You literally cannot make this up. Murray Bernays was an Army 06 at one point, a Colombian grad, and was originally from Russia. During two weeks in early September 1944, Bernays hammered out a six-page memorandum that in time became the le…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 25:50
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Justice. The secretary passed FDR's tough marching orders to draw up a new handbook on Germany to his aide. And guess who his aide was? None other than John McCloy, who in turn passed the problem of war crimes prosecution to a specialist on…
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You literally cannot make this up. Murray Bernays was an Army 06 at one point, a Colombian grad, and was originally from Russia. During two weeks in early September 1944, Bernays hammered out a six-page memorandum that in time became the le…
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As he saw his task, he was to defer action once again on war crimes issue until the war was over, thereby avoiding reprisals against the US POWs. In other words, he's taking his marching orders from State Department. He did not intend to de…
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Bernays' work at the War Department up to that time had consisted in important part in heading off attempts by the American Jewish community and from the OSS and other U.S. agencies promoting psychological warfare to open anti-Nazi war crim…
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Quote, by 1944, he must have seen reports of the exterminations, but they apparently did not penetrate his consciousness any more than they did for most of the others in Washington. Ingrained doubts about atrocity stories and inability to g…
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in both Auschwitz and other camps, unquote. Bernays' professional concern was primarily for European businesses, and they used the US POWs as the excuse. Bernays and the War Department did not create a war crimes prosecution strategy under …
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every indication that without this outside pressure, the War Department would have continued to stall. Regardless of what Bernays may have intended, the War Department used his legal advice primarily as a device to avoid taking any action a…
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murder, and pillage. Charges that the Nazis had a common plan to commit war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity eventually became the centerpiece of the prosecution strategy at Nuremberg. In fact, the concept of Nazi o…
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G-L-U-E-C-K, in articles written in the New Republic, the Harvard Law Review, and in his 1944 book called War Criminals, Their Prosecution and Punishment. President Roosevelt even referred directly to the Nazis as a lawless conspiracy in hi…
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It was Bernays who drafted the legal memorandum that eventually became the War Department's policy. Under U.S. criminal law, prosecutors have the option of bringing an additional charge of conspiracy any time two or more people act by conce…
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by an appropriate tribunal to have been engaged in a criminal conspiracy, he reasoned. Any member of the organization could theoretically be prosecuted for each crime committed by the member, assuming that the accused Gestapo man was acting…
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He proposed that shortly after Germany's surrender, an Allied tribunal should try several key Nazi organizations as criminal conspiracies. All of the acts of the accused organization could be placed in the public record during the prosecuto…
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because evidence going back to 1933 could be presented even though the prosecution was seeking convictions of acts only after 1939. It also permitted prosecutors to present evidence of Nazi atrocities against Axis nationals, such as German …
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On the other hand, Bernays' strategy rejected the effort led by Pell and Morgenthau to set any new legal precedents on crimes against humanity. In fact, it opposed almost any development in international law beyond a very strict structure t…
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These factors undermine the ability of well-entranced functionaries in Washington to have their way. Morgenthau worked with Murray Bernays' boss, Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy, to draw up a blueprint for denazification of Germany. …