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To: Taro who wrote (260485)	11/16/2005 5:07:21 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572101

Although it doesn't invalidate the revisionist rationale's main argument, I feel it necessary to mark and correct the following inaccuracy: In 1941, the Nazis were winning the war. War crimes trials were the last thing on anybody's mind. (In fact there was no such concept until 1945. War crimes trials had not been a standard part of wars in the past.) (see my post #260199) Actually, the prospect of ending up as "wanted war criminals" wasn't some far-fetched nonstarter for Germany's Nazi leaders since their WWI predecessors only narrowly escaped such a fate --as noted by Pr G. G. Preparata: In 1920 the pace of events accelerated. On January 10 the Versailles Treaty went in force. The Allied note demanding that Germany hand over the 'war criminals' (Articles 227-30 of the Peace Treaty) exploded 'like a bomb' on February 3; it was accompanied by a list of 900 names, including those of Kaiser Wilhelm, Ludendorff, Tirpitz (who pioneered the use of poison gas on the Western Front) and Helfferich. Though France was not feigning, Britain, of course, was: she had no desire to see Kaiser Wilhelm, one of [Queen] Victoria's grandchildren, hang, but the news had sufficiently envenomed the [German] public spirit: the Reichswehr generals were ready to resume the war. The German government tarried, and nothing would come of the Allied requests --no 'patriot' would ever be surrendered. Message 21882243 (page 106) Or, as noted by Pr D. Stevenson: Finally, when early in 1920 the Allies published a list of hundreds of wanted war criminals, including Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and Bethmann Hollweg, the outcry in Germany was such that the British and the French feared a communist or a nationalist takeover there. In the end, they settled for a compromise whereby the Germans' own supreme court at Leipzig would try the accused, although in fact it handed down only a very few extremely light sentences. amazon.com (page 434 of the first edition: Cataclysm - The First World War as Political Tragedy)