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The issues raised by Nuremberg trials are dealt with in this book. These include: was it a necessary response to crimes of Third Reich?; how were Germany and Germans capable of such extraordinary evil?; was trial just, given claims that defendants were simply serving their country, doing as they had been told to do?; and if not just, was it nonetheless necessary as a warning to prevent future crimes against humanity? The author's approach to these and other questions of justice is made through examination of each of defendants in trial. His conclusion is: In a world of mixed human affairs where a rough justice is done that is better than lynching or being shot out of hand, Nuremberg may be defended as a political event if not as a court. Some sentences may have seemed too severe, but none was harsher than punishments meted out to innocent people by regimes these men served. In a certain sense, says Davidson, the trial succeeded in doing what judicial proceedings are supposed to do: it convinced even guilty that verdict against them was just.
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