Were the Nuremberg Trials valid?

[minionofmidas]

And again, of the ten hung, who would you have spared?

Streicher (disgusting a man as he was) and Ribbentrop would be the obvious answer here, as neither was particularly directly linked to the diverse war crimes.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Valid, even if the death sentences were not. Though I do admit one could make a valid moral argument for the death penalty in this case, something I don't think is valid in its use in the contemporary US (or any other country.)

[Хahar 🤔]

And again, of the ten hung, who would you have spared?

Streicher (disgusting a man as he was) and Ribbentrop would be the obvious answer here, as neither was particularly directly linked to the diverse war crimes.

Yup. Schleicher wasn't that much more guilty than the next racist pervert (certainly not enough to hang), and Ribbentrop wasn't a Göring, Himmler or Goebbels.

[SPC]

If you believe the American and British conduct of the war and it's aftermath were really that bad, you ought to look into how Russia handled things. The allies made a deal with the devil because they needed the Soviet Union to win the land war. Due to that fact the Soviets were able to control Eastern Europe for decades.

If Soviets occupied Germany or further into Western Europe, the result would have been worse than we can imagine.

This is the main reason I would have opposed American involvement in the Second World War. Is it any better that we sided with a murderer of 20 million over a murderer of 10 million?

[12th Doctor]

They were one of the worst examples of victor's justice in modern times.

In this case I could personally care less whether it was "victor's justice" or not.  Bear in mind, its not the only case where I feel that Victor's Justice can be excused... and personally, I wish it were used more aggressively in the case of Milošević.