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<< You know, I find it funny that Britain doesn't want the US to execute bin Laden.
Back in World War 2, they were calling for Hitler's head, and surely would have put him in front of a firing squad if the weasel hadn't taken care of the job himself. >>
I'm not sure if that is accurate, although there was no doubt public opinion that would have favoured that outcome. I could be wrong, but i cant recall any Nazis being executed by the British after WW2? >>
Results of the Nuremburg Trial . . .
Hermann Goering was sentenced to death by hanging.
Rudolf Hess was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Hans Frank was sentenced to death by hanging.
Wilhelm Frick was sentenced to death by hanging.
Julius Streicher was sentenced to death by hanging.
Walter Funk was sentenced to life imprisonment
Fritz Sauckel was sentenced to death by hanging.
Alfred Jodl was sentenced to death by hanging.
Martin Bormann was sentenced (in absentia) to death by hanging.
Joachim von Ribbentrop was sentenced to death by hanging.
Wilhelm Keitel was sentenced to death by hanging.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner was sentenced to death by hanging.
Alfred Rosenberg was sentenced to death by hanging.
Artur Seyss-Inquart was sentenced to death by hanging.
Was it by a British court? Nope. Nuremburg was run by an International Military Tribunal. (Gasp! But we can't do that! That would be infringing their Constitutional Rights!)
The International Military Tribunal finished its work and handed down its verdicts on October 1, 1946, ironically, on the Jewish Day of Atonement. Of the 22 defendants, 11 were given the death penalty, 3 were acquitted, 3 were given life imprisonment and four were given imprisonment ranging from 10 to 20 years. Those sentenced to death were hanged at Spandau Prison on October 6, 1946. Those acquitted were placed in the inept denazification program following the trial. Those who received prison sentences were sent to Spandau Prison.
What has happened since Nuremberg? As noted earlier, while many of the prominent Nazi leaders were tried, many others escaped prosecution. Some fled the country and were able to conceal their identity for many years. However, since the close of the Nuremberg Trials, many have been located and extradited for trial. In 1947, Herman Hoess, Commandant of Auschitz, was tried and executed in Poland. In 1962, Adolph Eichmann was tried and executed in Jerusalem. Due to the zealous efforts of Simon Wiesenthal and his organization, the search continues. However, for most of the world, the Nuremberg Trials were a symbolic expression of outrage over the atrocities of the Nazi organization. Once done, however, it seems that the major concern was to put the whole matter in the past and forget it. It is highly doubtful, to use Justice Jackson's words, that we have eliminated "the causes" and laid the basis for preventing "the repetition of these barbaric events."
THE NUREMBERG TRIALS: THE DEFENDANTS AND VERDICTS