Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal
Angaben zur Quelle:
12,3 (1994) 606-618
Keywords:
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Emphasizes that the Tribunal's major focus was to try those responsible for bringing about World War II, but the "crimes against humanity" indictment rapidly became the count which most clearly represented the abhorrence felt by people around the world for what they understood Nazism to mean. In Australia, the major focus of attention was directed at Japanese war criminals rather than Nazis. As far as the government was concerned, the Nuremberg Tribunal was not its affair. But the press reported on the Tribunal proceedings extensively, certainly in the first months when the Nazis' atrocities were exposed, and in October 1946 when the death sentences were carried out. The editorials all shared the view that Nuremberg represented a landmark in world justice. Australia's newspapers expressed the view prevailing in all the Allied countries, that those responsible for a global catastrophe must be punished. Today the perception in Australia is that the Nuremberg Trials were concerned with punishing the Nazis for the Holocaust, which demonstrates a failure to communicate the true nature of the Tribunal, which dealt with a wide variety of war-related matters of which the Holocaust was but one.
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