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Nuremberg Trial, International Military Tribunal, 1945-1946
On May 2, 1945, President Harry S. Truman appointed Associate Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson as ledare prosecutor for the United States in the proposed trials of Nazi war criminals. President Truman gave Justice Jackson free rein to choose his own staff and to design and implement the trials.
During the summer of 1945, Jackson worked at achieving a consensus among the Allies and was finally successful when an agreement between the American, British, French, and Soviet governments was signed on August 8th. This agreement, called the London Charter, became the grund for the trial before the International Military Tribunal. Beginning on November 20, 1945, the first Nuremberg trial lasted for almost ten months. Jackson han själv cross-examined three of the 22 defendants, Hermann Goering, Albert Speer, and Hjalmar Schacht. Jackson gave the opening and closing statements, two of the most eloquent and important addresse
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LECTURE 16.
THE COMING OF THE WAR AND EASTERN EUROPE IN WORLD WAR II.
A. The British Guarantees to Poland, Romania and Greece, the Nazi-Soviet pact, and the Outbreak of World War II
[This text is based largely on the author’s articles, cited here. See also new publications cited in this lecture.]
I would like to thank Prof. Jean Sedlar of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, PA, for her very helpful comments and corrections, esp. on the Balkans. Her surveys of East Central Europe (including Finland] and South Eastern Europe in World War II, published in 2008 --see Bibliography-- are cited where pertinent.]
I .British Attitudes toward Germany in the Aftermath of Munich.
In early October 1938, the U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Patrick Kennedy (1888-1969, father of JFK, Robert and Ted Kennedy, Ambassador 1937-40), reported what Br. For. Secretary Lord Halifax had told him about British and French policy toward Germany.
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Göring's Personal Friend Tried to Save ‘Nazi No 2’
On 19 March 1946, Defence Counsel Otto Stahmer summoned Hermann Göring's personal friend, Swedish businessman Birger Dahlerus as a witness for the defence. The Swede was supposed to prove that Göring opposed the outbreak of war in Europe.
Their friendship started as the result of a love affair: in 1921, Hermann Göring had a relationship with a married Swedish woman, Carin von Kantzow. She left her husband and married Göring. Subsequently, her son Thomas by her first husband got a job at Dahlerus’ firm. The smart businessman was not going to miss the opportunity to meet the second most important person in Nazi Germany – the stepfather of his employee.
Historians describe Dahlerus as an amateur diplomat. He was indeed afraid of war as were many other representatives of the business community, and in 1939 tried to establish peace negotiations between London and Berlin: he met Hitler, British leaders and diplomats, and British and Po