60 years ago last year

[ewx]

Churchill wanted Hitler executed. I don't think this is really news - Overy mentions in Interrogations that Churchill's view was that any senior Nazis captured should be taken out and shot as soon as a positive identification was made. It was Stalin's enthusiasm for show trials, trumped by a wish for a proper legal process in Washington, that led to the Nuremberberg trials instead of summary execution. (And this makes the complaints about “victor's justice” hollow in my view - the Soviet and British alternatives would have been much worse in that respect.)

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[ewx.livejournal.com]

I think the people in question got a much better deal than any balanced analysis of the sitation could have led them to expect.

[hsenag.livejournal.com]

True, but it was still not entirely even-handed.