Post-WWII - 1945, Germany: Nuremberg War Crime Trial, Thomas J. Dodd Summation. 29Aug46 2 of 2

Post-WWII - 1945, Germany: Nuremberg War Crime Trial, Thomas J. Dodd Summation. 29Aug46 2 of 2 SOF continued from 220560-09. “Deprive the Nazi conspirators of these organizations & they could never have accomplished their criminal aims. Take away the SA & they would have lost the mastery of the streets; take away the SS & they would have had no concentration camp system.” (edit). 04:53:11 The very anonymity which the Nazis intended to give to crime by the use of these organizations plagues us to the very end of this Trial. After these proceedings are concluded, this same organizational anonymity will plague the Allied powers in seeking to bring to book those who are responsible for these terrible offenses. It is a sobering fact that the vast majority of the crimes committed in the names of these organizations must go unpunished. But Nazism must not escape by this route which it rigged for itself; it must not survive in secret & undenounced organizational entities to prepare a new onslaught against civilization. By a declaration of criminality against these organizations, this Tribunal will put on notice not only the people of Germany, but the people of the whole world. Mankind will know that no crime will go unpunished because it was committed in the name of a political party or of a state; that no crime will be passed by because it is too big; that no criminals will avoid punishment because there are too many. 04:54:25 “On 28 February 1946, in this courtroom, the Chief Prosecutor for the United States of America, Mr. Justice Robert H. Jackson made a statement before this Tribunal concerning the criminality of these organizations. That statement represents the attitude of the United States in these proceedings towards these organizations. I can do no better than to remind the Tribunal of it again. I quote from what Mr. Justice Jackson said on that occasion: ‘In administering preventive justice w/ a view to forestalling repetition of these crimes against peace, crimes against humanity & war crimes, it would be a greater catastrophe to acquit these organizations than it would be to acquit the entire 22 individual defendants in the box. These defendants' power for harm is spent. That of these organizations goes on. If, these organizations are exonerated here the German people will infer that they did no wrong & they will easily be regimented in reconstituted organizations under new names behind the same program. In administering retributive justice it would be possible to exonerate these organizations only by concluding that no crimes have been committed by the Nazi regime. For these organizations' sponsorship of every Nazi purpose & their confederation, to execute every measure to attain these ends, is beyond denial. A failure to condemn these organizations under the terms of the Charter can only mean that such Nazi ends & means cannot be considered criminal and that the Charter of the Tribunal declaring them so is a nullity’." 04:56:10 President adjourns the Tribunal for the day & men get up & gather notes, shake hands & MPs move thru to wait w/ the defendants as others leave. Post-WW2; Holocaust Charges; Extermination; Evidence; Horrors of War; Crimes Against Humanity; 1940s; NOTE: Partial or entire of 04:47:00 - 04:57:38 (2 cards) sold at per reel rate. Sound has background hum.