Thing is that the Nuremberg Trials and the Tokyo Trials came from a Soviet idea, not the one of the democracies. And the Soviets just wanted to repeat the Show Trials of the 30s, not to set a serious precedent (as was shown by the conviction of Wehrmacht personnel for the Katyn Massacre during the actual trials). And even then the Allies did not try anything equivalent to a serious attempt to dismantle either the German or Japanese systems of governance and military power that existed before the war, Operation Paperclip and the Gestapo torturers who found employment in the Eastern Bloc serving as the fate of Hitler's villains.
In some ways the ICC is a far greater system than that set up at Nuremberg because there's at least a pretense of impartiality.
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Date: 27/5/11 00:30 (UTC)In some ways the ICC is a far greater system than that set up at Nuremberg because there's at least a pretense of impartiality.