Monday, December 31, 2012

he evidently felt

In the United States, there had also been more discussion on what to do with the defeated enemy. Herbert Wechsler, the assistant attorney-general, had drawn up a secret memorandum at the end of 1944 commenting on the war department’s latest proposal that the Nazi leaders be tried for ‘conspiracy to achieve domination of other countries’ – a crime of which nobody, he evidently felt, could ever accuse the United States leadership. - David Irving, NUREMBERG, THE LAST BATTLE [pdf]

курсив мой, ясное дело.

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