NUREMBERG JUDGMENTS
QUESTION OF RETRIBUTION POSSIBLE NEW WAR Rec. 9 p.m. FRANKFURT, Feb. 23. The United States War Crimes judge, Mr Charles Wennerstrum, who said that vindictively unfair verdicts might fall back on those who demanded them, stated in an interview with an American correspondent that the war crimes trials only taught the Germans that they lost the war to tough conquerors. The chief counsel for the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Brigadier-general Telford Taylor, heard of the interview although it has not yet been published, and replied: “ The idea would be laughable if its consequences were not likely to be deplorable. All the worst elements in Germany will use the statement against the best. The trials have been an unshakeable demonstration of justice rather than vengeance.”
Judge Wennerstrum, in a recent judgment, said the application of international law at Nuremberg was now being studied throughout the world, particularly with regard to a possible new war in which the victors to-day might be the vanquished in the future, and vindictively unfair verdicts might fall back on those who demanded them.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26703, 24 February 1948, Page 5
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