The defendants before the Nuremberg Tribunal
Front row:
Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walther Funk, Hjalmar SchachtBack row:
Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Konstantin von Neurath, Hans FritzscheNahum Goldmann: The Jewish Paradox, Grosset & Dunlap, 1978, S. 122:
„During the war the WCJ had created an Institute of Jewish Affairs in New York (its headquarters are now in London). The directors were two great Lithuanian Jewish jurists, Jacob and Nehemiah Robinson. Thanks to them, the Institute worked out two completely revolutionary ideas: the Nuremberg tribunal and German reparations.“The executioners were already in place before the verdict
Two days after the American war crime of Hiroshima, the dropping of the atomic bomb, on August 8, 1945, the representatives of the victorious powers signed the London Agreement, the blueprint for the show trial. Topics inconvenient for the Allies, which could have allowed for a counter-accusation, such as the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland, the air raids on cities, etc., were sidelined. The German-hater and chief prosecutor Shawcross, who later distinguished himself through atrocity propaganda lies, remarked in a magazine 20 years later: “Undoubtedly, the Nuremberg trials can also be seen as an example of that ancient principle which the Romans called vae victis!” (Woe to the vanquished)
Prosecutos
The chief prosecutor was the American Robert H. Jackson. He was assisted by the half-Jewish former Prussian senior government official and professor at a small American university, Robert Kempner. His additional responsibility was to ensure that witnesses and documents named by the defense were “currently untraceable” because they were being held in top secret in the witness wing of the Nuremberg court, or because documents such as diaries had been confiscated by US authorities.
The Soviet-Bolshevik “prosecution” was largely drafted by the Jewish jurist Ilya Pavlovich Trainin.
Other prosecutors were Hartley Shawcross for Great Britain and François de Menthon for France, succeeded after his resignation by Auguste Champetier de Ribes.
According to US prosecutor Thomas Joseph Dodd, 75% of the court’s staff were Jewish. Charles F. Wennerstrum, the American judge who presided over several of the subsequent trials, put it this way in an interview with the Chicago Daily Tribune in February 1948:
“The whole atmosphere here is unhealthy. […] Lawyers, clerks, interpreters, and investigators have been hired who only became Americans in recent years and whose backgrounds were rooted in Europe’s hatred and prejudice.”At the start of the trial, the more than 70 representatives of the prosecution and their more than 1,000 assistants faced twenty defense lawyers, who were sometimes treated like second-class defendants.
The fact that virtually all means of forging documents fell into the hands of the Allies and their helpers after the war – official letterhead with original letterheads, typewriters, stamps, state printing works, etc. – should generally serve as a warning to historians.
Defense lawyer
The judges considered Alfred Seidl, later Bavarian Minister of the Interior, to be the most outspoken of the defense lawyers. His plea for Rudolf Heß was cut short by the court because Seidl dared to mention the Treaty of Versailles and the Secret Additional Protocol to the Hitler-Stalin Pact.
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— @DolorsHaze Oct 16, 2026
