The Japanese emperor himself wasn't charged, but his most important military generals were. There were actually trials called the Tokyo Processes in which several Japanese politicians were sentenced to death. The emperor is actually said to have had very little control over the politics in Japan during the war. Wether that is true or not, the aggressive Japanese nationalism didn't return after WW II so the trials seemed to work, i guess.
My grandmother lost almost everyone. They were living Warsaw poland. The calls and letters stopped after he invaded. Their names are in lots of the dead. The logs are with the countries he invaded and in the holocaust museum. Thousands of papers with names, tattoo numbers and the country they came from. The other column lists the date of death and what camp they died in.
Where is the full, unedited video of the prisoners' final statements to the court? Seems there is a video on everything else except that segment. And no trial of the Soviet communists for the Katyn Massacre of 10,000 Polish officers?
I dont understand why Jodl was killed, for planning attacks? I mean what army doesn't do this? strange precedent to set, Manstein being sentenced in 1949 was ridiculous as well, the others like Goering and Speer deserved it but I don't think the Wehrmacht's officers were liable
@@johnhardman3 Patton ordered no mercy to be shown to Germans and this caused a series of massacres to be committed in Italy, should he have been sitting their as well?
@@mogwaigremlin7188 FYI, Germany declared the war. They pretty much invited the Americans. I'm not acting like other countries have not started wars for their own territorial gain. But the concept of war of aggression emerged after WWI. Countries started to sign conventions, to prevent wars. Germany broke those agreements, that's what matters here.
I just noticed that, although the other guilty defendants are referred to by their full names at the end, Rudolf Hess is referred to as "Defendant Hess". I wonder why that is.
@FerrarifanV12 but you forget, WWII was Stalin's war. History has conveniently forgotten his crimes as he lead the charge against the fascists in germany.
So you wanted ww2 to just keep going? The allies (sans the Soviet Union) were in no position to fight the soviets in 1945. America still had Japan to contend with, Britain was depleted as was France. China was still fighting Japan, so if we were to charge Soviet leadership with war crimes it would certainly lead to war and a war the SU would initially win the ground war but eventually they would be nuked by America/Britain , causing tens of millions of more casualties in the process. And you *want* that?
@@johnballs1352. Just saying what would have been right, the soviets did commit as many war crimes as the germans. And you are wrong, the americans together with the british would stay a chance against the Soviets. in just 10 years after the war the Soviet Union was far behind the US in technology
My question is why Bush II and his cabinet have not been brought up on similar charges. That would be practically as easy an open and shut case as some of these scoundrels.
@@ballkans Incorrect. Article I of the UN General Assembly’s adoption of Resolution 3314 (XXIX) on the Definition of Aggression states that aggression is: "The use of armed force by a state against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another state". In other words, it is a leadership crime. The suspect must be in a position to effectively exercise control over, or to direct, the political or military actions of a state. You may have some difficulty proving that was the RAF and USAAF's intention in the allied bombing campaign, my friend.
It means they tried to steal their neighbors' land, including throwing people out of their own homes that they paid for or inherited from their great grandparents. How would you like to have a bunch of Japanese soldiers or Hitler Youth brats pound on your door and tell you you have a half hour to get out because some of their civilians are moving in? Because they want more "lebensraum" and they're going to be the "master race." And if it's a farm you might even be a slave on your own plantation.
very true. speer was charming and intelligent, which his co-accused sauckel was not! speer argued a damage limitation case, and this proved a good tactic when inarticulate sauckel ended up facing the ultimate penalty when he did not. inside the 3rd reich by speer is a valuable historical document, but our albert's such a liar. and, like schirach, should have swung
@@bradleylowden558 - Speer got 20 years, a sentence based on the evidence available at the time. But information surfaced later that, if available in 1946, might have gotten Speer hanged. So it's more a case of the charges not being proven, rather than saying the man's innocent.
Excuse me, Fritz Sauckel & Albert Speer had both been found guilty on charges 3 & 4. Sauckel was sentenced to death by hanging & for Speer only 20 years imprisonment? What was the difference between them? If the crimes are the same, the sentence should be the same! The Law is the same for everyone, yes but when ever?
@@muttley8818 I know very well that Speer was charismatic, more intelligent & eventually even more beautiful than Sauckel. But is an intelligent person less guilty than one who is not? In my opinion, the unintelligent person is easier to get carried away by the mass ideology while a man like Speer, with all his qualities, was perfectly aware of what he was doing! Think about it!
I know a lot of them had sun glasses on because of the bright lights in there faces (the reason there were bright lights in there faces was to help the cameras) but it just makes them look like they were hung over lol.
@@tellinthatruth840 atrocities by the Russians against the Germans in germanys invasion of Russia was pretty intense. But they deserved it for intruding into their home.
What the hell are you talking about? There was no binding of camps to factories producing shells, tanks. There were no prisoners forcibly driven to Krupp, Rheinmetall, BMW, Heinkel into slave submission. Where these workers are absolutely free in bestial conditions. I'm talking about prisoners of war and about those driven into slavery from the Eastern lands. Savagery and barbarity, European "highly developed" culture. Like the Spaniards, the Portuguese in Africa, America. Like the British and later the Americans in North America, like the Russians in Alaska - the destruction of the local aboriginal population in order to obtain material benefits. Everything is simple
And where was Mr.Adolf Hitler at that time? Dead or in Argentina? There were testimonials from group of people he was much alive in Argentina for until 1961/1962 together with Martin Bormann.
He did not meet the needs of operation paper clip. No matter of your crimes if the allies needed you in their projects were they needed, scientists, aeronautical engineers and technicians you were spared and brought to one of the allied countries. The Nuremberg trials were a farce and what happened to the allied criminals? Mostly nothing.
He was willing to admit that what they did was wrong, to a world that wanted an explanation. He was willing to shed tears and apologize when all the others were still spouting the Nazi's BS. The world needed that..That is why Speer got off. He gave the world hope that there would not be a World War III.
Note: I heard on a later video that the judgments were not allowed to be filmed. So any Nuremberg clip you see where they are reading the judgments and showing the faces is a total mismatch... Which explains why there's almost no reaction.
You are correct in recommending operation Paper clip. Most Americans have not heard of it. Sad they haven't. But as you know the winner writes history and revises it.
For 300 years, British, French, et did the same to Indians and no such trial ever happened and whoever revolted was silenced systematically - one such example (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre )had if been not to Hitler to support India National Army by releasing Prisoners of War and Japan attacking Burma etc we would have continued to be under tyrant British. I dont support atrocities done to Jews, but no one has done any good either.
Hess was NOT Hitler’s closest confidant at the time of his flight to Scotland! He was being phased out of the top echelon because his ill-judged comments were getting more and more embarrassing, giving the impression of mounting instability. Hess was not handling being ignored by his “god” very well at all, and it’s thought that, he hoped that if his “mission” had been successful, he would be back in Hitler’s good graces again. I’m really shocked to find information that is so incorrect on this channel, and I’m also not impressed with the voiceover narration which I find is much too intrusive. If explanations needed to be given for those who don’t know much about this topic, then I feel it would be much less jarring to include subtitles alone.
Germany owed the world an apology - an apology which it has given on more than one occasion. Same for Japan. Italy were pretty crap in the war so an apology from them was irrelevant.
Keep one thing in mind, with America running the trial is there any real wonder, and besides they let a Russian be a judge, I mean come on wake up, look at the whole history of the Russians and Americans,
Crimes against humanity are crimes that occurred in a atrocious way-starvation, torture, experiments, death marches and gassing. Its against what makes us compassionate human beings.
Wasn't a Japanese Nuremberg trials like in Germany. Why wasn't the Japanese emperor charged at all?
They didn't even dare to charge Hirohito because it would spark revolution in Japan
japan got two nukes, punishment enough lol
The devil looks after its own
The Japanese emperor himself wasn't charged, but his most important military generals were. There were actually trials called the Tokyo Processes in which several Japanese politicians were sentenced to death. The emperor is actually said to have had very little control over the politics in Japan during the war. Wether that is true or not, the aggressive Japanese nationalism didn't return after WW II so the trials seemed to work, i guess.
Tokyo trials
That wiped the Smirk off his face
My grandmother lost almost everyone. They were living Warsaw poland. The calls and letters stopped after he invaded. Their names are in lots of the dead. The logs are with the countries he invaded and in the holocaust museum. Thousands of papers with names, tattoo numbers and the country they came from. The other column lists the date of death and what camp they died in.
8:17 why did Goering hide his face?
Where is the full, unedited video of the prisoners' final statements to the court? Seems there is a video on everything else except that segment. And no trial of the Soviet communists for the Katyn Massacre of 10,000 Polish officers?
I dont understand why Jodl was killed, for planning attacks? I mean what army doesn't do this? strange precedent to set, Manstein being sentenced in 1949 was ridiculous as well, the others like Goering and Speer deserved it but I don't think the Wehrmacht's officers were liable
Well America did have a lot to do with the trials, and let's face it, they're the do as we say, and not as we do country
He approved the killing of captured Allied troops (as did an SS kingpin, Helmut Knochen, who got away with it, and survived until 2010).
@@johnhardman3 Patton ordered no mercy to be shown to Germans and this caused a series of massacres to be committed in Italy, should he have been sitting their as well?
he ordered to kill some russian prisoners. also he started war. anyway i think that for him the right sentence was life imprisonment.
If you fight for an evil regime you are a war criminal. Plain and simple. He was fighting for Hitler’s racially pure war using genocide. He is guilty
Isn't "waging aggressive war" the same thing as being a good soldier?
Um, no? It means you start a war without the justification of self-defense.
Has America ever waged a war in the name of "self-defense"?
@@mogwaigremlin7188 FYI, Germany declared the war. They pretty much invited the Americans.
I'm not acting like other countries have not started wars for their own territorial gain. But the concept of war of aggression emerged after WWI. Countries started to sign conventions, to prevent wars. Germany broke those agreements, that's what matters here.
@@srrlIdl what about the war in Iraq? should every US officer be executed?
@@lewistaylor2858 Poor analogy. As if every German officer was executed?
I just noticed that, although the other guilty defendants are referred to by their full names at the end, Rudolf Hess is referred to as "Defendant Hess". I wonder why that is.
Andrew Byrd I did not even catch that. Thank you
Fuck that guy
@@rascallyrabbit717 lol
@FerrarifanV12 but you forget, WWII was Stalin's war. History has conveniently forgotten his crimes as he lead the charge against the fascists in germany.
Very different from the scenes from Freisler's courts.
What I wouldn't have given to have seen Freisler in that dock and his reactions to all the due process and so forth...
In this trial the leading figures of the Soviet Union should also have sat next to the nazizs and been convicted of war crimes
So you wanted ww2 to just keep going? The allies (sans the Soviet Union) were in no position to fight the soviets in 1945. America still had Japan to contend with, Britain was depleted as was France. China was still fighting Japan, so if we were to charge Soviet leadership with war crimes it would certainly lead to war and a war the SU would initially win the ground war but eventually they would be nuked by America/Britain , causing tens of millions of more casualties in the process. And you *want* that?
@@johnballs1352. Just saying what would have been right, the soviets did commit as many war crimes as the germans. And you are wrong, the americans together with the british would stay a chance against the Soviets. in just 10 years after the war the Soviet Union was far behind the US in technology
Why?,to the victors go the spoils.
@@Trajan2401. And it just replaced a diktator with another in the east
BurriVurri Poland and Czechoslovakia
My question is why Bush II and his cabinet have not been brought up on similar charges. That would be practically as easy an open and shut case as some of these scoundrels.
Where is Hess Now is he dead or alive?
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Long dead. He was the only prisoner at spandau prison
Dead since 1987
'Waging Aggressive War', WTF kind of charge is that?
If you don't understand the basics here, you'd be better advised to keep quiet, mate. Comments like that just make you look a dick.
@@MSM4U2POM Well, the British and Americans did wage aggressive War by night bombing most of German cities, especially Dresden, killing civilians.
@@ballkans Incorrect. Article I of the UN General Assembly’s adoption of Resolution 3314 (XXIX) on the Definition of Aggression states that aggression is: "The use of armed force by a state against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another state".
In other words, it is a leadership crime. The suspect must be in a position to effectively exercise control over, or to direct, the political or military actions of a state.
You may have some difficulty proving that was the RAF and USAAF's intention in the allied bombing campaign, my friend.
It means they tried to steal their neighbors' land, including throwing people out of their own homes that they paid for or inherited from their great grandparents. How would you like to have a bunch of Japanese soldiers or Hitler Youth brats pound on your door and tell you you have a half hour to get out because some of their civilians are moving in? Because they want more "lebensraum" and they're going to be the "master race." And if it's a farm you might even be a slave on your own plantation.
@@SFVnative All and any form of war is aggressive, even the war on your mind!
very true. speer was charming and intelligent, which his co-accused sauckel was not! speer argued a damage limitation case, and this proved a good tactic when inarticulate sauckel ended up facing the ultimate penalty when he did not. inside the 3rd reich by speer is a valuable historical document, but our albert's such a liar.
and, like schirach, should have swung
Swung like Sauckel you mean? Schirach received 20 years
You’re ignorant. Speer was genuine. Read his memoirs.
@@bradleylowden558 - Speer got 20 years, a sentence based on the evidence available at the time. But information surfaced later that, if available in 1946, might have gotten Speer hanged. So it's more a case of the charges not being proven, rather than saying the man's innocent.
I wonder who is that person who made the text subtitles. Many are in wrong words and spelling. So confusing.
They got more than their victims did. They were given a trial and treated humanely which they dt deserve.
After watching “the greatest story never told” I beg to differ🧐
The victor will not be asked if he told the truth
Excuse me, Fritz Sauckel & Albert Speer had both been found guilty on charges 3 & 4. Sauckel was sentenced to death by hanging & for Speer only 20 years imprisonment?
What was the difference between them? If the crimes are the same, the sentence should be the same!
The Law is the same for everyone, yes but when ever?
albert speer was veey intelligent man not sauckel this is the reason why speer had not to die for the american .
Speer was cultured, charismatic and very intelligent. Sauckel was none of those.
@@muttley8818 I know very well that Speer was charismatic, more intelligent & eventually even more beautiful than Sauckel.
But is an intelligent person less guilty than one who is not? In my opinion, the unintelligent person is easier to get carried away by the mass ideology while a man like Speer, with all his qualities, was perfectly aware of what he was doing!
Think about it!
@@antonellanonni6380 Of course I'm not saying it's right. I know how wrong it is. Unfortunately, in the 1940's that was the way of things.
@@muttley8818 Unfortunately...
Hess is the biggest hero in WW2 he was trying to got peace in 1941 from Churchill who wanted only war and was already talking with the USSR.
I know a lot of them had sun glasses on because of the bright lights in there faces (the reason there were bright lights in there faces was to help the cameras) but it just makes them look like they were hung over lol.
The Soviet participation in these trials was ironic as they were as big in violations as the Nazis.
And what about the Americans? :D
@@tellinthatruth840 atrocities by the Russians against the Germans in germanys invasion of Russia was pretty intense. But they deserved it for intruding into their home.
What the hell are you talking about? There was no binding of camps to factories producing shells, tanks. There were no prisoners forcibly driven to Krupp, Rheinmetall, BMW, Heinkel into slave submission. Where these workers are absolutely free in bestial conditions. I'm talking about prisoners of war and about those driven into slavery from the Eastern lands. Savagery and barbarity, European "highly developed" culture. Like the Spaniards, the Portuguese in Africa, America. Like the British and later the Americans in North America, like the Russians in Alaska - the destruction of the local aboriginal population in order to obtain material benefits. Everything is simple
And so the devil looks after its own
And where was Mr.Adolf Hitler at that time? Dead or in Argentina?
There were testimonials from group of people he was much alive in Argentina for until 1961/1962 together with Martin Bormann.
It was mostly a sham court. Then again the winners makes the rules.
I’m all for bringing people to justice when they gone to the depths of depravity. But its not a contest on atrocities.
I couldn't get over the fact that they don't mention genocide just slave labour
How could Speer get away with just 20 years for crimes against humanity? (Not even mentioning the other count he was found guilty in).
He did not meet the needs of operation paper clip. No matter of your crimes if the allies needed you in their projects were they needed, scientists, aeronautical engineers and technicians you were spared and brought to one of the allied countries. The Nuremberg trials were a farce and what happened to the allied criminals? Mostly nothing.
@@georgschmidt494 Guess the Allies didn't need another architect.
He was the only one that feigned remorse of all of them. It was bull s#%t. He helped hitler design the camps. He was his favorite architect.
I notice a double standard in which Speer gets 20 years of the same conviction as Sauckel who got death.
He was willing to admit that what they did was wrong, to a world that wanted an explanation. He was willing to shed tears and apologize when all the others were still spouting the Nazi's BS. The world needed that..That is why Speer got off. He gave the world hope that there would not be a World War III.
“There is nothing to be said in mitigation”
Did you purposely splice this in such a way that we could not see the defendants reactions? What a waste.
Note: I heard on a later video that the judgments were not allowed to be filmed. So any Nuremberg clip you see where they are reading the judgments and showing the faces is a total mismatch... Which explains why there's almost no reaction.
Read up on operation paper clip!
You are correct in recommending operation Paper clip. Most Americans have not heard of it. Sad they haven't. But as you know the winner writes history and revises it.
This trial should have reflected ALL CRIMINAL LEADERS and brought them to justice. At least some justice is happening here. Too many got away.
What is wrong with these trials, not everyone deserves to die
We are now eagerly looking forward to the trials concerning US-elite people and their humanity-business-concepts.
All guilty!
Stfu boris
Hard to prove conspiracy, RIGHT?
Waging a war or aggression? Isn’t that the textbook definition of war? Seems more like victors justice.
For 300 years, British, French, et did the same to Indians and no such trial ever happened and whoever revolted was silenced systematically - one such example (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre )had if been not to Hitler to support India National Army by releasing Prisoners of War and Japan attacking Burma etc we would have continued to be under tyrant British. I dont support atrocities done to Jews, but no one has done any good either.
Not a mention of millions murdered in camps? sentencing should have been short and swift !🤔
Hess was NOT Hitler’s closest confidant at the time of his flight to Scotland! He was being phased out of the top echelon because his ill-judged comments were getting more and more embarrassing, giving the impression of mounting instability. Hess was not handling being ignored by his “god” very well at all, and it’s thought that, he hoped that if his “mission” had been successful, he would be back in Hitler’s good graces again. I’m really shocked to find information that is so incorrect on this channel, and I’m also not impressed with the voiceover narration which I find is much too intrusive. If explanations needed to be given for those who don’t know much about this topic, then I feel it would be much less jarring to include subtitles alone.
If I was a judge than Roosevelt and Churchill where going in a bad with big crocodiles.
And now the WEF founders, can't wait.
The Lord's Will be done always. Those who God acquitted were innocent in His Sight.
Criminals judging criminals. A sad theatre
And they were planning the war together.
He’s an executioner that’s your only job you don’t mess that up unless it’s on purpose so they suffered
America was on the wrong side.
But no
@Salmirche The ones you name their, yes, but some of these officers were not. It's just important to know this.
@@phineus8397 Lmao try to cope
Aw they were like someone's old grandparents who killed 30 million people
fuckin kangaroo court
The world owes Germany an apology.
Germany owed the world an apology - an apology which it has given on more than one occasion. Same for Japan. Italy were pretty crap in the war so an apology from them was irrelevant.
Use your own name you gutless antisemitic bastard.
@@muttley8818 yeah, italy at the end was a victim (exept Mussolini and his fake goverbement in the north, the social italian republic)
True
I live to see Iranian government officials in a Tehran international trials fr war crimes.
Good
And when they hungthem he purposely made them suffer
This should be a lesson for all fascist regime still remaining
"Corporatism is fascism" (Mussolini)
Fascism was a reaction to Communism.
All remaining communist regimes too.
Charged on crime against "humanty"!! Who is charging who? A funny trial!
You are an idiot
Keep one thing in mind, with America running the trial is there any real wonder, and besides they let a Russian be a judge, I mean come on wake up, look at the whole history of the Russians and Americans,
Crimes against humanity are crimes that occurred in a atrocious way-starvation, torture, experiments, death marches and gassing. Its against what makes us compassionate human beings.
Why on earth do filmmakers keep asking narrators to do the translations with ridiculous cliché accents...it's ridiculous and kinda racist.
Kangaroo Court
Those who felt that America vented the pearl harbor frustration at Nuremberg
Go to a camp and hold the teeth, clumps of hair and ashes then see if Nuremberg was necessary
Their face,pfff.just hate in their face.so weird.
And now we have Trump, Qanon and other maniacs.
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