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Hermann Goering, 1946

my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
edited June 2006 in A Moving Train
Why, of course, the people don't want war... But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a parliament or a communist dictatorship... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

~Hermann Goering, 1946

Goering made the statement to G.M. Gilbret, a psychologist who interviewed him in prison during the Nuremburg war crimes tribunal, April 18, 1946
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    pejamrlpejamrl Posts: 35
    The Nuremberg Judgment included the following statement: “The charges in the indictment that the defendants planned and waged aggressive wars are charges of the utmost gravity. War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”

    On the Kellogg-Briand pact signed by president Coolidge in 1928:The Nuremberg Judgment states: “The question is, what was the legal effect of this pact? The nations who signed the pact or adhered to it unconditionally condemned recourse to war for the future as an instrument of policy, and expressly renounced it. After the signing of the pact, any nation resorting to war as an instrument of national policy breaks the pact. In the opinion of the Tribunal, the solemn renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy necessarily involves the proposition that such a war is illegal in international law; and that those who plan and wage such a war, with its inevitable and terrible consequences, are committing a crime in so doing.”
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    joseph33joseph33 Washington DC Posts: 1,210
    The nazi fuck was right.
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