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Article: An unlikely mass killer; BOOKS.(Features)
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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Byline: Simon Griffith
Hunting Eichmann
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The Nuremberg trials of 1945-46 were meant to draw a line under the crimes of the Third Reich. The sight of Goering, von Ribbentrop and other Nazi leaders in the dock, and the spotlight shone on the atrocities committed under their watch, helped establish the principle of international justice. The defence of 'I was only obeying orders' was comprehensively discredited, and the inevitable death sentences helped destroy a perverted ideology.
That was the theory. In practice, the picture was a little less ...