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They Cheated the Gallows
Ambruster, Howard Watson | August 14, 1948 issue

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Four obscure Americans, sitting as judges at Nürnberg, Germany handed down a decision on July 30, 1948 that absolves twenty-three I.G. Farben officials of the charge of plotting war. By this appalling ruling, the court has failed in its duty to render justice, strengthen international law, and destroy the seeds of future wars. As if to add insult to injury, it has coupled its acquittals of the Farben leaders on the war-plotting charge with grossly inadequate sentences--applied only to thirteen of the twenty-three accused--for industrial plunder of victim nations and the commission of atrocities, including murder, on slave laborers and captive men, women, and children.

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WAR; MILITARY art & science; CHILDREN & war; POLITICAL systems; GERMANY; UNITED States
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