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Herr Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 75, head of Germany's notorious munitions dynasty, was too old and too sick to go on trial with the other indicted war criminals at Nürnberg. But Chief U.S. Prosecutor Robert Houghwout Jackson wanted a live Krupp in the dock. He had an idea: why not substitute 38-year-old Alfried Krupp for his ailing father? After all, all the Krupps were in the same boat. The Russians and French agreed; Jackson asked for a delay to write the new name into the old indictment. The International War Crimes Tribunal...
Traffic Lights. This incident typified the tribulations which the Nürnberg trial held in store-for the accusers...
...rnberg, the lawyers had produced an uneasy synthesis. The defendants would be allowed to plead guilty or innocent, but in effect all were presumed guilty. Each defendant would have the right to address the court, but not the right to keep quiet. There would be some 50 prosecuting, some 20 defense attorneys. Each verdict would require agreement by three of the four judges. The only court of appeal would be the Allied Control Council...
...Whatever laws the Allies were trying to establish for the purpose of the Nürnberg trials, most of them had not existed at the time the deeds were committed. Yet, since the days of Cicero, jurists have condemned ex post facto punishment...
...Kind of Law. Many hoped, with Prosecutor Jackson, that Nürnberg was an important beginning, and that around this precedent real international law would crystallize. But there was a very real danger that the Nürnberg trials would turn into chaotic farce, set international law back by decades. That danger was inherent in one school of thinking. No less an authority than U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark had publicly hoped that the Nürnberg court "will deal out what we in Texas call 'Law west of the Pecos'-fast justice, particularly fast...