War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world.
To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
- Chief Justice Robert H. Jackson,
Nuremberg, 1946
"Nuremberg - This film was made as an historical document to record permanently and accurately the trial of the Nazi defendants at Nuremberg. It consists of footage from German films documenting Nazi personalities and activities interwoven with film shot during the trials -- including testimony and statements from defendants, prosecuting attorneys, judges, and witnesses. It follows the story of the rise and fall of Nazism from the putsch in a Munich beer hall to the Nuremberg trials, and contains flashbacks of a variety of Nazi crimes against humanity."
"You'll see. A few years from now the lawyers of the world will condemn this trial. You can't have a trial without law."
—Joachim von Ribbentrop
20 November 1945
"[Chief U.S. prosecutor] Jackson is away conducting his high-grade lynching party in Nuremberg... I don't mind what he does to the Nazis, but I hate to see the pretense that he is running a court and proceeding according to common law. This is a little too sanctimonious a fraud to meet my old-fashioned ideas."
- Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone
"[the Allies themselves] have done or are doing some of the very things we are prosecuting the Germans for. The French are so violating the Geneva Convention in the treatment of prisoners of war that our command is taking back prisoners sent to them. We are prosecuting plunder and our Allies are practising it. We say aggressive war is a crime and one of our allies asserts sovereignty over the Baltic States based on no title except conquest."
- United States Chief Prosecutor and Associate Supreme Court Justice Wallace
"[We are] substituting power for principle... I thought at the time and still think that the Nuremberg trials were unprincipled... Law was created ex post facto to suit the passion and clamor of the time."
- Associate Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
U.S. Deputy Chief Prosecutor Thomas Dodd (and friend)
"You know how I have despised anti-Semitism. You know how strongly I feel toward those who preach intolerance of any kind.
With that knowledge -- you will understand when I tell you that this staff is about seventy-five percent Jewish. Now my point is that the Jews should stay away from this trial -- for their own sake.
For -- mark this well -- the charge 'a war for the Jews' is still being made and in the post-war years it will be made again and again.
The too large percentage of Jewish men and women here will be cited as proof of this charge. Sometimes it seems that the Jews will never learn about these things. They seem intent on bringing new difficulties down on their own heads.
I do not like to write about this matter --it is distasteful to me -- but I am disturbed about it.
They are pushing and crowding and competing with each other and with everyone else."
- Future Congressman Thomas Dodd,
U.S. Deputy Chief Prosecutor,
Nuremberg, September 25th 1945
"Williamson supports conspiracy theories regarding the assassination of President Kennedy, and the World Trade Center controlled demolition conspiracy theory, denying that the latter were terrorist attacks but were instead staged by the U.S. government.
He has also said that the 7 July 2005 London bombings were an "inside job" and propagated rumours about the likelihood of a nuclear attack on the London Olympics in 2012.
"I believe that the historical evidence is strongly against, is hugely against six million Jews having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler"
"I think that 200,000 to 300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps, but none of them in gas chambers."
Williamson holds strong views regarding gender roles and dress. He opposes women wearing trousers or shorts, attending college or university, or having a career, and has urged greater "manliness" in men.
He supports authoritarian parenting style, denouncing the film The Sound of Music as "soul-rotting slush" and saying that, by putting "friendliness and fun in the place of authority and rules, it invites disorder between parents and children."
When Adolf Eichmann was seized and taken to Tel Aviv to stand trial, it produced a shock wave in the Jewish and German communities of Buenos Aires.
Jewish leaders informed the Israeli authorities in no uncertain terms that this must never happen again."
- Martin Bormann : Nazi in Exile
by Paul Manning
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