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Robert A. Taft condemned
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“So go ahead. And as we big picture, we've been talking about who runs Americans foreign policy as we keep screwing other people over. And it's these people we're talking about. Yes. A couple more interesting factoids about Mr. Robert Alfons…”
▶ The Shadow State 25_ Secret Societies 9; The Taft Dynasty @ 31:11
Telford Taylor member_of
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“War consists largely of acts that would be criminal if performed in a time of peace. Killings, woundings, kidnapping, destroying and carrying off people's property, said Telford Taylor, the U.S. prosecutor at the second round of Nuremberg t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #1 @ 23:05
Murray Bernays funded
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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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 25:50
Telford Taylor headed
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“Instead, Jackson convinced Truman the U.S. should hold its own trials of Nazi defendants then in U.S. hands. These trials became known later as the later Nuremberg trials or more formally as subsequent proceedings. These later trials, prose…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 52:59
Henry Stimson headed
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“And we're going to go deeper into that, but if I get some more biographical details on him. Okay. I should just point out his deputy when he was the Secretary of War the second time was our favorite, John J. McCloy. And we are probably not …”
▶ Secret Societies Skull and Bones @ 41:44
Robert Jackson member_of
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“But the next three months brought Operation Sunrise, the Taris port crisis, and the breakdown of the U.S.-Yugoslav cooperation in prosecuting war criminals. By July 1945, Soviet suspicions that the Western allies were not complying with any…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 1:07:34
Robert Jackson member_of
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“and other Nazi occupation officials, Jackson noted, and the U.S. needed a uniform policy on this issue. Jackson, who was soon to be the chief U.S. prosecutor at the International Tribunal at Nuremberg, favored abandoning the international t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 1:08:52
Franklin D. Roosevelt vowed
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“The glory that was European civilization had gone up in human smoke. But FDR was determined to keep his vow that he had made repeatedly throughout the war, that he would bring to justice the perpetrators of this travesty. The Third Reich wo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 37:29
Allen Dulles had_other_plans
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“The glory that was European civilization had gone up in human smoke. But FDR was determined to keep his vow that he had made repeatedly throughout the war, that he would bring to justice the perpetrators of this travesty. The Third Reich wo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 37:29
Rebecca West covered
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“Hitler, and so it wasn't a coincidence that they used Nuremberg for the trial. By 1945, it had been reduced to rubble. The Royal Air Force and U.S. Army Air Force bombers had swarmed overhead and destroyed just about everything there. When …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 38:29
Robert Jackson warned
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“The documentary was made by a Hollywood director, Billy Wilder, who was an Austrian born Jew who had fled Hitler, who compiled it from scraps of film from the U.S. Army Signal Corps. In his opening statement, Robert Jackson, the chief U.S. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 42:56
Joseph Stalin insisted_on
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“fitting punishment that they originally favored taking the law into their own hands and just shooting people. Churchill estimated the number would be somewhere between 50 and 100 men. The prime minister thought that once the proper identifi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 45:30
Franklin D. Roosevelt came_around_to
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“Roosevelt finally came around to the idea of an international war crimes tribunal, but once again, he had to face stiff opposition in his own State Department. Foreign service legend George Kennan, who was a junior diplomat in the U.S. Emba…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 46:25
Joachim von Ribbentrop convicted_at
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“According to one historian, Dolman knew that he was at high risk of prosecution. The Nuremberg trials where Foreign Minister Joachim van Ribbentrop and Ambassador Franz von Papen were both convicted firmly established that diplomats like Do…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 28:03
Fritz von Papen convicted_at
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“According to one historian, Dolman knew that he was at high risk of prosecution. The Nuremberg trials where Foreign Minister Joachim van Ribbentrop and Ambassador Franz von Papen were both convicted firmly established that diplomats like Do…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 28:03
United States covered_up
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“Because what you're going to find described in here is the purposeful sabotaging by the United States of Nuremberg. And that's the part that fascinated me the most. But they did the same thing with the Armenian genocide. Whoever it is that …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #1 @ 12:49
Richie Boys member_of
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“germans who grew up speaking the language now you you can make of that whatever you want but until i began reading these biographies and i know about the richie boyd program we came across that early on because they are intricately intricat…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 6:05
U.S. State Department covered_up
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“that have already decided how the war crime trials are going to go. And they basically undermined this man and had decided that Hitler and the Nazis were not going to be tried for anything that he did in Germany to his own citizens, nor in …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 1:42:51
Lucius Clay covered_up
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“The other aspect of him being the governor, so when we, you hear me all the time correcting people when we talk about the Nuremberg trials, Clay was instrumental in them not being real. So basically, you see Clay reducing the sentence of Il…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 3 @ 41:37
London International Assembly funded
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“Many of the innovations in international law and even in international affairs that were formalized at Nuremberg were the first fully articulated by this London group. A number of its more prominent members were members of the Cambridge gro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 35:50
John J. McCloy covered_up
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“Warhamster and I are going to talk about him because you can do a whole show on him. He was part of the CFR Ford Foundation. He was over in Germany in post-World War II as quote-unquote like the governor guy that was letting all the Nazis g…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 1:45:13
Douglas MacArthur covered_up
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“I don't know that for a fact, how much MacArthur knew about all of this. Later on, we would know that because of his actions that he took with regard to Taiwan, that he was at some point in this timeframe, very in the know. And the same thi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ South Korea; WHAT IS GOING ON @ 7:35
Mentions (120)
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And his dad, Max Warburg, was part of the M.M. Warburg Company. And that's notorious. So if you look, he was an intelligence officer. Eric was. He was actually part of Nuremberg and the interrogations of Nazis post-World War II during the N…
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He actually was the interpreter that interviewed Herman Goring. So, obviously, lots of ties to the apparatus that was set up post-World War II, where Alan Dulles is setting up the stay-behind units, working with Reinhard Galen. And you almo…
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Conventional education on history often perpetuates inaccuracies, a realization that can be profoundly unsettling. The Nuremberg trials, conducted from 1945 to 1946, were not the comprehensive reckoning portrayed. While executions occurred …
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Otto Skorzeny worked in many cases directly for Hitler, but in most cases under General Wolff and General Galen in the establishment and training of their original Gladio program, which was called Werewolf Units. And he was kept out of pris…
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He basically divulges all of the information he knows about the secret units. So they fly him back over to Germany and both him and Otto Skorzeny are placed in these particular camps. They were like VIP camps for protection, basically, and …
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there were a lot of planning sessions that went on. And just so that everybody knows how intimately involved this is and connected, the judge and the prosecutor for Skorzeny's particular Nuremberg trial was from Dallas, Texas. Now, keep in …
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that relocates to Spain where Skorzeny is living post-World War II, planning all of these events. It is Otto Skorzeny that trained the assassins that deploy to Dallas to assassinate JFK. So you have both a Dallas attorney and a Dallas judge…
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fascist organization which is what joseph farrell calls it didn't lose world war ii they changed tactics they decentralized instead of centralized front they dispersed all of the german scientists and all of the ss troops and all of the oth…
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And so that's kind of what I looked at. Like, I mean, I even just look at the Nuremberg trials as there was only one scientist, one that was doing all of these heinous things that was literally caught on trail trial with a handful of scapeg…
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And on that, I'm just going to step down. And I thank you all very much for your patience with my stupid phone. Verizon Nazis. Oh, and that's right. Nuremberg was bullshit. So that was touched on. Don't let them think you. When everybody sa…
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is that if you recall, it used to take years for information, the truth to come out. And now things are taking about 20 minutes. And, you know, like the colonel said, that is a big panic for them, which is why they want to shut us down. Tik…
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forever. You know, you see, you know it, but you don't know how to prove it. But with your Operation Gladio and with all this information, information being brought to light, you know, God works in wonderful ways. And I just want to say tha…
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The other aspect of him being the governor, so when we, you hear me all the time correcting people when we talk about the Nuremberg trials, Clay was instrumental in them not being real. So basically, you see Clay reducing the sentence of Il…
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who was convicted of murder in the Nuremberg trials. So he was like, yeah, that's not that big of a deal. So he reduced his, her sentence, sorry. And he intervened in several other ways in the Nuremberg trials. And let's see, I was thinking…
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In Dallas, the lawyer that allowed the judge and the prosecutor in Otto Skorzeny's Nuremberg trial, both from Dallas, Texas. So there's so many ties there. It's not even funny. Enoch, what you got? I just have some information because just …
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These people were employed and trained in psychological warfare and translators. What most of us have never appreciated, and quite frankly, probably didn't even realize, is most of the Nuremberg trials had to be done with interpreters. Ther…
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forces that spoke the German language within the JAG Corps or the Judicial Corps or any of those things. So most of which, most of the interpreters employed during Nuremberg came out of the…
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Because if you have an interpreter that is lying to you and listening to someone say something and then telling you something completely different, that's a problem. And that has major, major ramifications when you think back to who was tri…
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who was held accountable and who was not, and what the overall agenda was during the Nuremberg trials. And if you believe what I believe, speculatively, that the Nuremberg trials was a show trial and the people that they wanted to not be fo…
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Excuse me. Let's see. Post-war, a classified post-war report by the U.S. Army found that nearly 60% of the credible intelligence was gathered by the Ritchie boys during the war. After the war, many of them served as translators and interrog…
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all speaking German, that went through this training and they were basically, if I gave you the definition of an Operation Gladio person as far as interrogation, psychological training, shooting, learn how to do explosives, this is what it …
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He finds Allen Dulles and he makes Allen Dulles a deal. He says, I will show you where all of my stay behind network is if you make sure I stay out of Nuremberg. I don't want to go to Nuremberg. I don't want to hang. I want to work with you…
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And we're going to go deeper into that, but if I get some more biographical details on him. Okay. I should just point out his deputy when he was the Secretary of War the second time was our favorite, John J. McCloy. And we are probably not …
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That was his big push. Served as Secretary of State from 1929 to 1933. Can I say something about the Nuremberg trials? What's that? I want to just hit that point home about the Nuremberg trials. Go. The reason why he insisted on having them…
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want to psyops us, they do something like the Nuremberg trials. So all of us rested assured for the rest of time immoral that we had closed the book on World War II. We had Nuremberg trials. All the people were held accountable. We can move…
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and put a whole bunch more of them in jail. And almost overnight, while they were sentenced in some cases, either to life in prison or whatever, and a lot of them death, they commuted the sentence to life in prison. And then when Adenauer g…
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The Nuremberg trials was a joke, but it was a very useful tool for these manipulators in order to be able to say they had them. Because if you go back and you look at who ran the Nuremberg trials, it was a crowd from Texas. You had the judg…
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that oversaw the armies in the counterintelligence, the CIC, that basically did all of the debriefs of the Nazis. And that's who determined, they determined who got placed in what queue, whether you were going to the Nuremberg queue or you …
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Because Otto Skorzeny talks about walking out of the one he was in. It wasn't even secure. They told him and Galen basically that they were going to take care of him. You know, and they basically rigged his Nuremberg trial to find him not g…
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that have already decided how the war crime trials are going to go. And they basically undermined this man and had decided that Hitler and the Nazis were not going to be tried for anything that he did in Germany to his own citizens, nor in …
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to see, I'd never seen these. I mean, again, I'm a hundred books into this and I had never seen these particular documents and how pre-coordinated the Nuremberg trials were of who was going to be held accountable and who wasn't and for what…
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created the World Anti-Communist League into the United States and even allowed them to pose as preachers, knowing that every single one of them committed war crimes. The same thing happened in Japan when they didn't do a Nuremberg level, w…
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They had a show trial in Japan, much like the show trial called Nuremberg, that held none of the key fascists responsible for anything that they had done. And you have the exact same thing happening in country after country after country af…
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legitimate, not even Wilson kind of guys, but people they frame to take the fall for something, those people will get the book slammed at them. And, you know, maybe after 20 years they get released. Maybe. Do you think Nuremberg was the dry…
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The one judge that they had over there and two of the lead trial counsels were all from the same town in Texas. And to me, the entire Nuremberg was scripted. And I think they decided well in advance who was going to hang and who was not goi…
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As you remember during our Scores Any Paper book review, they whisked him down to Franco Spain where he could live free and clear, helped him set up, like we helped him set up a construction company and then paid him through Air Force contr…
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Warhamster and I are going to talk about him because you can do a whole show on him. He was part of the CFR Ford Foundation. He was over in Germany in post-World War II as quote-unquote like the governor guy that was letting all the Nazis g…
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I don't know that for a fact, how much MacArthur knew about all of this. Later on, we would know that because of his actions that he took with regard to Taiwan, that he was at some point in this timeframe, very in the know. And the same thi…
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none of the actual criminals were ever brought to trial. They were all given a pass. They end up in different elements of Operation Gladio going forward. And again, I've used the word Operation Gladio generically. They did not have a Gladio…
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Despite Galen's occasional hysterics, Critchfield expressed admiration for him and his business-like style. He almost certainly would have been convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg. But Critchfield graciously overlooked Galen's past. He wen…
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He went on to say that he had Christian beliefs that were evident and reinforced by his wife and family. Obviously, Critchfield was an easy mark for Galen. Reinhard Galen was a man with rat-like cunning. Instead of a hangman's noose at Nure…
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One of them is Wilder Penfield, but there's a couple of other ones. Donald Ewan Cameron, who Alan Dulles also knew since World War II. And that guy had been consulting with Rudolph Hess in Sanity Case at the Nuremberg trials. He became anot…
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The glory that was European civilization had gone up in human smoke. But FDR was determined to keep his vow that he had made repeatedly throughout the war, that he would bring to justice the perpetrators of this travesty. The Third Reich wo…
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she found only ruined landscape and scavengers. That November, 21 prominent representatives of the Nazi regime that had brought Europe to this ruin faced their own moment of retribution as they sat in defendant's gallery at the Nuremberg Pa…
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and treated the well-fed Nazi to one of their chicken and rice dinners. Goring had no idea that he was going to be tried as a war criminal. He told an American commander, should I wear a pistol or my ceremonial dagger when I appear before G…
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The documentary was made by a Hollywood director, Billy Wilder, who was an Austrian born Jew who had fled Hitler, who compiled it from scraps of film from the U.S. Army Signal Corps. In his opening statement, Robert Jackson, the chief U.S. …
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or for the dead, they were crying for themselves. One of the most arrogant remained impervious was Hitler's banker with his back turned to the screen and Goring trying to brazen it out. Goring complained that the film had ruined the show he…
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had issued full warning that Nazi war criminals would be pursued to the utmost ends of the earth, which we know that didn't happen, except for a few of them. The tribunal was finally established in Nuremberg, and even after it was up and ru…
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lecturing his Western allies on the merits of due process. Uncle Joe took an unexpected, ultra-respectable line, Churchill wrote Roosevelt after the meeting with Stalin in Moscow in October of 1944. The Soviet premier told Churchill that th…
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Pell mentioned that you can't forget about one of the big war factories in Germany being the Opel Company, which was owned and financed by General Motors Corporation, a company in which Secretary Stenonis had a great interest. And he had ju…
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by putting a number of OSS agents on his staff. Now, keep in mind, Allen Dulles has already prepared to ratline Nazis out. And just like he did with JFK's assassination, he worms his way in to basically controlling Nuremberg. And that's wha…
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of Nuremberg. Jackson after having agreed to this began realizing that he had fallen into an OSS trap. It became clear to the Nuremberg prosecutor that Donovan and Dulles harbored ulterior motives and agenda that did not always mesh with th…
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Donovan and Jackson began to grow in July when the OSS chief moved to take over what Nuremberg prosecutors referred to as the trial's economic case. As Wall Street lawyers, Donovan and Dulles considered themselves uniquely equipped to take …
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was a part of FDR's Justice Department. He had taken on corporate interests like the Mellon family and fought tax evasion and antitrust battles. Well aware of the corporate conflict of interest that Donovan and Dulles brought to the Nurembe…
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in the VIP section of Dachau where prisoners received lenient treatment. And other books that I have read said that was basically arranged in order to make him look like he was falling out of favor with Hitler, but was basically in bed with…
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Goring and Slatt, the prosecutors, were aghast. Telford Taylor, Jackson's assistant prosecutor, later called Donovan's actions ill-conceived and dangerous. Goring was a surviving leader and the symbol of Nazism. To put him forward as a man …
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On November 26, a few days after the trial began, Jackson wrote a letter to Donovan making it clear that their views were far apart and there was no role for the OSS chief on Nuremberg's team. By the end of the month, Donovan was gone. But …
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not only during the first trial, but through the 11 subsequent Nuremberg trials, which stretched from 1946 to 49. In all, some 200 accused German war criminals were prosecuted at Nuremberg, and hundreds more would be tried in military and c…
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In the dock at Nuremberg, where they almost certainly would have been convicted of capital crimes, escaped justice. Some were helped to flee through rat lines through Franco's Spain, the Middle East, South America, and even to the United St…
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on Park Avenue, and his remarks were frank and unfiltered. The first Nuremberg trial had just begun, and Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech was months in the future, but Dulles had already sounding, was creating the theme of a future C…
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would turn on Moscow. On October 1st, 1946, after nearly a year-long trial, the fates of the 21 Nuremberg defendants were finally read aloud in the stuffy courtroom. Three were acquitted, including Slat, the banker. Seven received prison se…
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in the prison that weren't hung. And it was commuted to life in prison. And then those sentences were basically time served eventually when the cameras were off. A number, let's see, a number of the interventions on behalf of fortunate war …
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Sentenced to hang by the neck until dead, among them was Goring, whom not even Bill Donovan was able to save. He had predictably proclaimed his innocence to the end. The only motive which guided me was my ardent love for my people. This pro…
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The chief hangman, a squat, hard-drinking army master sergeant from San Antonio by the name of John Woods, was an experienced executioner with numerous hangings to his credit. But due to sloppiness or ill will, the Nuremberg hangings were n…
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Field Marshal Wilhelm Kettel, Hitler's war minister and second highest ranking soldier after Goring, to be tried at Nuremberg, suffered the longest, thrashing around for 24 minutes. When the dead men were later photographed, they looked par…
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Former Nazi behind bars, no longer looking smug, but stricken. Why are you doing this to me? He screams as images of his victims float ghost-like around him. When the movie was produced, the first Nuremberg trial was still underway, and it …
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He played a prominent administrative role in Hitler's assembly line. He was, as Time magazine later branded him, a bureaucrat of death. The Nuremberg trials would firmly establish the principle that administrators of murder, not just the ac…
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Wolf, as Himmler's top troubleshooter, frequently intervened to ensure smooth efficiency at the labor camps. During the Nuremberg trials, a highly incriminating letter written by Wolf would emerge that made it clear how important his interv…
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but it was the cruder and less connected executioner, Ernest Kaltenberner, who would hang for the sins of the SS. Nor was Wolfe in the following year when the doctor's trials began, though he would have been singled out by prosecutors as on…
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According to a highly embarrassing article that ran in the New York Herald Tribune, Wolfe enjoyed a pleasant summer by the lake with his family. That summer was the period of greatest jeopardy for Wolfe as the Nuremberg prosecutors selected…
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that named him as one of the major war criminals. With Hitler and Himmler both dead, Wolf was among the highest Nazi officials to survive the war. Determined to keep Wolf out of the defendant's dock, however, Dulles went so far as to bury i…
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But Dulles betrayed his own men, blocking the OSS report on Wolfe from ever reaching the Nuremberg staff. Instead, it was Dulles' portrait of Wolfe as a moderate and gentleman that was sent to the legal team, with a recommendation that he n…
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Herman Goring. But the Nuremberg prosecutors was preparing for a new round of trials. And as the war crimes tribunal were organized in Italy and other countries that had fallen under the boot of Nazi occupation, Wolf was still found himself…
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According to one historian, Dolman knew that he was at high risk of prosecution. The Nuremberg trials where Foreign Minister Joachim van Ribbentrop and Ambassador Franz von Papen were both convicted firmly established that diplomats like Do…
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American, Dolman thought. The situation appeared bleak for Dolman. His next stop would be Nuremberg, but he knew that he had an ace up his sleeve. Dolman took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Pagnotta. Please call this …
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which is now where Otto Skorzeny is. In Madrid, Dolman came under the protection of Otto Skorzeny, who had put together a racket trading in arms and helping SS fugitives flee justice. They don't mention being a trainer for Operation Gladio …
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But it didn't take long for people in the Joint Intelligence Committee and Exploitation Branch under the Army GT-2, as well as the Joint Intelligence Objective Agency and the OSS, to change those plans. Endorsed by President Truman, papercl…
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Most of the aerospace medicine experiments came under the auspices of Colonel Hubris Stronghold, head of the Luftwaffe Institute for Aviation Medicine in Berlin. The investigators later determined that most of the information gleaned from t…
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from DORA, a slave labor camp for the B-2 factory. He later became the first deputy director of the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral for NASA. Kurt Blum, who established the Biological Warfare Research Center for Himmler and exposed c…
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was acquitted of war crimes at Nuremberg in 1947 and brought to Camp David, Maryland. He was quickly hired by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps to work on biological warfare. Major General Walter Schreber, who assigned doctors to experiment on p…
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Over 1,800 former Nazis and at least 1,700 documented dependents of those Nazis were brought into the United States. Most of them were never seen at Nuremberg. The covert community had discovered that only three things had to be done. You h…
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at a security level high enough so no one outside the intelligence community could ever see it, and put your stamp of national security on top of the folder. Conrad Schrafer, for example, had been a defendant in Nuremberg, but the Joint Int…
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or otherwise objectionable, 100% Nazi to not Nazi, with the stroke of a pen. Major General Walter Schreber, whose file noted that he had assigned doctors to experiment on prisoners and had handled the funding for those projects, was present…
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It would not be until 1952, 1952, when a newspaper reporter, Drew Pearson, publicized the Nuremberg evidence and the true story behind Schreber's war record came to light. He was given a visa and escorted to Argentina. Nazi Siegfried Ruff, …
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Their purpose was to gather evidence for the Nuremberg trials, or so they thought. Information and confessions from IG Farben scientists and directors would help hang certain Nazis, and maybe even some of the personnel at Farben. One of the…
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He was not found for several weeks. When he was finally located, it was not by the criminal hunters who desperately wished to hang him at Nuremberg. Tarr spirited him away to a safe house in Heidelberg. After hiding Ambrose, Tarr flew to Lo…
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Because what you're going to find described in here is the purposeful sabotaging by the United States of Nuremberg. And that's the part that fascinated me the most. But they did the same thing with the Armenian genocide. Whoever it is that …
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War consists largely of acts that would be criminal if performed in a time of peace. Killings, woundings, kidnapping, destroying and carrying off people's property, said Telford Taylor, the U.S. prosecutor at the second round of Nuremberg t…
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such as a genocide, slavery, or other forms of mass violence against civilians. Although such crimes were defined in detail in international military tribunals at Nuremberg and later in the UN, even today they remain a relatively new concep…
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The controversies over the Morgenthau plan for post-war Germany and the establishment of an international military tribunal at Nuremberg had to be hammered out. By 1943, most changes were also underway among the German economic elite. Up un…
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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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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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corporate elite. State Department issued a formal statement insisting, quite falsely, that it had supported the aims of Pell's program all along. Flat out lie. Pell became a martyr in effect for the hardline approach to Nazi crimes that had…
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He stated that a negotiation with Germans' withdrawal, on the other hand, would stabilize the economic situation, undermine the popularity of communist resistance, and reduce the possibility of German military leaders would be tried for war…
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And that document was what Allen Dulles used to basically grant unofficial amnesty to these people, allowed them to basically come over to the Allies' side, and then that information was later presented at Nuremberg that they weren't true N…
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But the next three months brought Operation Sunrise, the Taris port crisis, and the breakdown of the U.S.-Yugoslav cooperation in prosecuting war criminals. By July 1945, Soviet suspicions that the Western allies were not complying with any…
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who was leading the U.S. negotiations towards establishing a military tribunal at Nuremberg. The ongoing Nuremberg planning discussions had become complicated by Russians' assistance that we incorporate agreements concerning turnover of pri…
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All except the international cases are beyond the terms of my authority, except to advise my own government whether we have objections in any of the cases. Jackson was keenly aware of the political ramifications of the prisoner issue. This …
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and other Nazi occupation officials, Jackson noted, and the U.S. needed a uniform policy on this issue. Jackson, who was soon to be the chief U.S. prosecutor at the International Tribunal at Nuremberg, favored abandoning the international t…
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Dulles drew heavily on the protégés of Heinrich Schlott, who was basically known as Hitler's central banker at one point, then already facing charges before the military tribunal at Nuremberg, but of course, they made sure he got off. At th…
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It was entered into evidence in Nuremberg, quote, Jewish laborers would not receive any payment in cash, unquote. The factory administration will pay the SS and the German police for each person based on the number of days that it works, th…
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They're still fighting back in the State Department about what's going to be a war crime and what isn't. This infighting became particularly pronounced in prosecutions of the German industrial elites and the business leaders. Nuremberg, so …
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engaged another Dulles agent, the former Axis Romanian ambassador, Gagori Gafencu, to write memoirs that stressed that Germany had been drawn into the war against its will and that choices of people like Slat as a result of that weren't the…
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was still split over the issue of whether to bring him to trial. The U.S. hardliners favored prosecution, as did Jackson, but Jackson's most senior deputy, former SS chief William Donovan, strongly opposed the trial. Donovan argued that Sla…
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and that a tough cross-examination of him on the witness stand would undermine the stability of Germany and our national security. Jackson, however, found himself hemmed in by his commitments to France and the Soviet prosecutors who strongl…
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Slatt was acquitted at Nuremberg and over the protest of the Soviet judge. In this case, as in others, the split between the U.S. and the Soviets kept getting bigger. It all boiled down to basically more about politics than it did about peo…
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to be one of the first trials at Nuremberg. Had Wolf been tried there, he would almost have certainly been sentenced to hang. But the U.S. and British representatives at Nuremberg planning committee said no. Only one U.S. officer would be p…
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would be easier to make than against Wolf, the U.S. contended, even though Wolf probably had more power in the SS than anyone else. After much debate, the Tribunal Planning Committee decided to prosecute Haltenbrunner first, and in the autu…
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But that was not to be. Within weeks of the opening of the first, Robert Jackson recommended to Washington that the U.S. should not cooperate in any further trials, regardless of its commitment to Moscow. The state to state relations began …
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Instead, Jackson convinced Truman the U.S. should hold its own trials of Nazi defendants then in U.S. hands. These trials became known later as the later Nuremberg trials or more formally as subsequent proceedings. These later trials, prose…
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were more junior SS officers, but they face the same problem. The U.S. government transferred Wolf from an internment camp to considerably more comfortable lodging in a mental hospital and later claimed that he had had a mental breakdown, r…
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and in a dozen different countries and languages, attending endless meetings, drafting international agreements on transfers of war criminals, and keeping up with all aspects of the work. Some of these jobs were being simultaneously pursued…
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with yet another assignment, attempting to straightening out the bureaucratic infighting caused by overlapping authorities, all of which were on purpose. John Wolfe collapsed from overwork shortly after the Nuremberg tribunals convened that…
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The International Tribunal at Nuremberg adopted the substance of a U.S. proposal for a joint prosecution of SS Nazi Party leaders and a handful of similar groups of people. The Occupation Government Control Council Law No. 10 applied the co…
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You don't hold people accountable for evil. Evil will continue. And anyone telling you that they want another Nuremberg, tell them to kiss your ass. We don't want another Nuremberg. Nuremberg was a piece of crap. And our government lied to …
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show that they put on so that this international syndicate could scarf up what they didn't already have monopolized in Germany. And they did it at the expense of all of the people that had set up companies there and were murdered. Amen. And…
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whatever his name was, Green Hackworth. I mean, holy crap, what an evil bastard he was. But it's crazy. Anybody else? Illini, how are you doing today? Hey, Colonel. I'm doing well. As always, you know, the study of Nuremberg and how the war…
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And obviously we're doing it because we want to share it with other people. But it is what it is. So we are going to finish up our book today. There's not a lot left. And then we'll have open mic time at the end. So kind of just in summary …
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Just a little bit that I had known about Nuremberg and where all of the lawyers came from. A lot of them came from the Dallas, Texas area, weirdly enough. And then some of the people that we know were not tried, the ones that were tried and…
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Chapter eight and chapter eight is very interesting because we're going to get into a little bit more of the details of this faux process leading into Nuremberg. All right.…