The Nuremberg Trials Rewritten

How does a human judge another human for a crime that could have very well have been done by the person judging the convicted person if he/she were in their shoes? No one understands what truly goes on in someone else’s mind. For that reason alone judging one another is wrong. “The year world war II finally ended, a courtroom in Nuremberg, Germany, became the scene of what would be called the greatest trials of the world” (www.pbs.org)”. When the Nuremberg trials began Nazi’s were judged on what role they played during Hitler’s reign. Though, instead of the German and Jewish citizens judging the Nazi’s it was the Americans. The major discussion about the topic is whether they are truly guilty or not. If people have looked at the additional evidence then they would know that not all of them were as guilty as they were made out to be.

During the times of the trials none of them escaped the life sentence or the death penalty, but why is it that the things some of them were convicted of had no relevance to the deaths of Jews. For example, “Frick was hanged for ‘Germanizing’ the inhabitants of Posen, Danzig, West Prussia, Malmsey, the Sudetenland, the Memel land, and Austria. With the exception of Austria, these were former parts of the Prussian Reich, separated from Germany by the

Versailles treaty (porter16).” What is bad about spreading the customs of Germans to other countries when other countries have done the same thing? If we are so blind as to forget about the white man’s burden and how other countries were so eager to change the native people of Africa then why does it pose such a threat that Frick tried to do the same thing. The other thing to take into account is that all the countries he was trying to Germanize origin...

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