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The Nazi Elites and bin Laden |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Morton A. Kaplan |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 2,298 Words, 14,739 Characters |
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The interrogations of the Nazi leaders after their capture, which is recounted by Richard Overy, professor of history in Kings College, in his recent book Interrogation: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 (Viking, 2001), has great inherent interest. Even more interesting, however, is the character of the tribunal that convicted them, the charges on which they were convicted, and the resonance of this episode for the recent charges against Osama bin Laden. vbcrlf Overy recounts the early discussion of whether there should be a trial. Churchill simply wanted to kill them, but the pressure from the United States and Russia to try them overcame his reluctance to accept a trial. After returning from the war in the Pacific to take up graduate st...
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... can we be legitimately criticized, for our overthrow of Mossadegh to protect the interests of British Petroleum under the guise of preventing a communist regime stymied a genuine, even if tenuous, possibility for reform. Bin Laden and his mullahs leave us with a Hobson's choice: we can survive as a civilization by extirpating these criminals, or we can allow our civilization to collapse. vbcrlf
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