A Brutal Peace and the Nuremberg Consensus (original) (raw)

2007

Abstract

The trials of the Axis “war criminals” held by the Allies came to be justi- fied by its twofold aim: on the one hand, to punish the war of aggression, the infraction of the rules of war, and the violation of the principles of human civilization; on the other hand, the democratic re-education of the vanquished. The trials were a combination of jurisprudence and politics and, inasmuch as they were decisive aspects of the Allied occupation policy in the territories of the Axis regimes, also ways of presenting the victors’ moral virtue, as well as the condemnation without appeal of the defeated. They contributed to building between 1945 and 1948 the “orthodox” historical-political conception of Europe’s recent past.

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