Why Britain was against Nuremberg

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Recently, the British newspaper The Guardian published an article "Britain did not want Nuremberg", dedicated to the famous trial.

As you know, at the Nuremberg Tribunal, the International Tribunal considered the accusation of 24 top leaders of Nazi Germany of crimes against peace, planning and conducting an aggressive war, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

According to Ian Cobain, the author of an article in a British newspaper, only recently were the notes of the head of British counterintelligence MI5 Guy Liddell declassified, from which, they say, it became known that Britain was against Nuremberg, and wanted to execute a number of war criminals without trial, and send others to prison.

“Winston put forward this proposal in Yalta, but Roosevelt thought that the Americans might demand a trial. Joseph supported Roosevelt, frankly stating that Russians like public trials for propaganda purposes."

It has been known in Russia since the days of the USSR that Great Britain, and certain circles in the United States, were against the lawsuits.

Yes, this was a process of victors, which, according to I. Stalin, could not be avoided, so that in the future it would not occur to anyone to attack the Soviet Union and, all the more, to unleash a world war. But the reasons why the United Kingdom and the United States were against the trial are silent.

Few people know that our allies agreed to a trial subject to certain conditions.

After all, the whole world knew about N. Chamberlain's Munich agreement with Hitler, knew how the West supported the development of the German military-industrial complex, etc.

The entire pre-war policy of the leading Western countries was aimed at strengthening Nazi Germany and pushing it to attack the Soviet Union. Here are the discussion of these issues, the investigation of the reasons that led to the war, and the two victorious countries tried to avoid.

The British government was the last to agree to the trial in May 1945, but was the first to put forward a tough demand for drastic restrictions. freedom of speech for the defendants Nuremberg Tribunal. It feared "charges against British policy, no matter which section of the indictment they arise under." So it was said in the English memorandum of November 9, 1945.

The American representative at the trial Jackson said bluntly: "I believe that this process, if discussions about the political and economic reasons for the outbreak of the war are allowed, can bring incalculable harm to both Europe … and America."

What incalculable harm did Jackson talk about to Europe and America ?!

W. Churchill described the role of the West in inciting World War II in his notes: and a complete rejection of the five or six year policy of complacent appeasement and its transformation almost instantly into a willingness to go to an obviously inevitable war in much worse conditions and on the largest scale."

That is, Churchill directly indicated what Great Britain was doing before the war, and when Hitler "changed" his obligations to fight Bolshevism in the first place, Great Britain had to enter the war in "much worse conditions."The royal family of Great Britain was also seriously involved in unleashing the Second World War.

Immediately after the end of the war, on the personal instructions of King George VI, British intelligence urgently carried out an operation to secretly seize a large number of documents compromising Great Britain from the German archives.

Everything related to the royal family was seized in another special operation of British intelligence, which was carried out by Anthony Blunt, who was part of the famous "Cambridge Five" of Soviet foreign intelligence.

He stole documents affecting the honor and dignity, as well as the international prestige of the British crown from Holland, through which Hitler's illegal channel of communication with the British crown ran.

Summing up, we can say that Britain really was against Nuremberg.

But you just need to more often remember the reasons why she was against it, and remind not only the Britons of them, but all of Europe.