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Show U.N. continues war trials By David Krahn Perhaps it would have been best to end the war crime trials and forget about them. However, now that the United Nations has decided that they continue, we should take a closer look at them. Since all war crime trials are based on the Nuremberg trials let us first examine them. The two books, "The Nuremberg Trials" by August von Knieriem and "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson, show how unfair and one-sided the Nuremberg trials really were. First, the court was made up of exclusively persons of the victors. In other words, the court was not impartial. Second, since the victors could have hardly convicted the vanquished by international law, they prepared their own statute and called it international law although it was only partly and loosely rad on international law. The fact that they prepared that statute nernselves and the fact that they did so only after the deeds to be i too were done, did not bother the victors. Third, only persons of the vanquished were tried by that statute, although many persons of the victors were also guilty under it. This as obviously wrong. Since the victors called their statute niernationa! law, they should have also applied it to their own am? h me": 'f international 'a is to mean anything at all, it must be PP ied to victor and vanquished alike. But this principle was violated at Nuremberg. the T11' the defense was not given a fair chance. Any attempt by anrit h ShW that the Treaty of Versailles was the real cause of Hitler Ve Second wrld War was stifled in the bud. But even without ann the defense was not given a chance. Since the uncement of the indictments was delayed, the prosecution had coum TK tlme to DrePare themselves than the defense. The defense most f denied access to the German and foreign archives, and Mens documents they asked for were not produced. The which6"6 not permitted to use most of their witnesses, and those Prosecut V Were permitted to use were first interrogated by the thev Tne defense counsils lacked office space and furniture, then, had I"0' permitted to use electric light in the evening, all 180 of 'her e t.share one telephone, they could not phone or travel to Germa?Un , to Bather evidence, and their travelling freedom in Fjfj?y Was '"nited. 'hMibert1"'6 the defense was thus hampered, the prosecution had all Furtherrr i documents. witnesses and facilities they wanted. surprise tb' he Prosecution could, unlike the defense, always hindered ense with new witnesses. While the defense were Prosecutio W'th the little evidence they managed to collect, the coUr in th" CUld 6Ven present tnings as evidence which not another ntshow m Wtr'd WOuld have listered to. Since the prosecution did tortin c 0f their documents to the defense, they succeeded in And lf 'on of them. cntinuelVf !w V.nitei Nations has decided that the war crime trials W. estahl I IT 'S mdeed t0 be done then H is best t0 start a" Ver between vi I fa'r statute which would make no distinction '"'National r Jnd van5uished, organize truly impartial and Since these wC u ' and have fair trials for victor and vanquished alike. '3 ,hv shnn be internati"nal courts, administering international W. iv obvi-' -!so hear cases of ?!1 "ther wars since the " ' ihT h.wl. if th- ... rit! tnafe cannot |