Back Quote by Anthony Lewis

The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed…

— Albert Einstein

The [Nuremberg Trial was] the biggest legal farce in history... the legend about six million supposedly murdered Jews acquired a legal basis, even though…

— Rick Sanchez

“The Nuremberg judges added illegal hanging atrocities to violent Hitlerian racist ferocities.”

— Saiom Shriver

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners…

— Janet Flanner

“If we were all blinded to the larger implications of the events that were sweeping upon us it was not entirely due to the…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“The myth of their total responsibility arose during postwar trials in the Federal Republic of Germany as a way to protect the majority of…

— Timothy Snyder

Of course, the main reason is the change of law in the way Germany has brought Nazi war criminals to trial. The previous rules…

— Marvin Hier

Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if…

— Benjamin B. Ferencz

“The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to…

— Hannah Arendt

“changes. It was the deliberate policy of Nazi Germany to artificially create conditions of state destruction and then steer the consequences towards Jews.”

— Timothy Snyder

Germany's crimes were recent and of such a scale and depravity that, unless constantly faced, they will come to seem fictitious.

— Richard Cohen

“Thus the pace, justification and mode of implementation of the genocide changed repeatedly from its inception in the summer of 1941. Examining the origins…

— Richard J. Evans