July 17, 2003

The text of this item, in the form in which I received it, showed signs of having been muddled by some hasty transcription. I couldn't find the text of Shawcross's 1984 speech, so I took the liberty of making a few superficial changes to eliminate nonsense as well as to make it read better. I think I have not changed the facts.

It's a pity Shawcross didn't have the wits to see through the game before the Juggernaut of the Nuremberg trials began to role. That wouldn't have saved the German victims, of course, but it would have spared Shawcross the nightmare of having participated in this hideous fraud. Another thing he could not have enjoyed very much contemplating it in later years was his prosecution of John Amery, in my view a very great hero, who was hanged as a traitor. John Amery betrayed no one. He was hanged because he spoke out against the conspiratorial devils of his own race who pushed Great Britain into war against Germany.

Mel Fowler

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Lord Shawcross, Nuremberg Prosecutor,

Changed His Mind

Lord Shawcross, who led the British prosecution at the
Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, has died at age 101.
The barrister, who was attorney general in the
post-war Labour Government, died peacefully at his
home in Sussex, his secretary Greta Kinder said.
Lord Shawcross, the last-surviving member of Attlee's
1945 administration, was a controversial figure.
Britain's youngest ever King's Counsel and a confirmed
socialist "for humanitarian reasons", Hartley
Shawcross was elected to parliament in 1945.
Swiftly promoted to the post of attorney general, he
prosecuted British traitors William Joyce and John
Amery, and the so-called Acid Bath Murderer, John
George Haigh, also faced Shawcross from the dock.
In December 1945, as Chief Prosecutor for the United
Kingdom at Nuremberg, the freshly knighted Sir
Hartley opened the British case against the Nazi
leaders with a speech that lasted nearly five hours.
But on March 16, 1984, Sir Hartley Shawcross, in a

speech at Stourbridge, made the following statement:

"Step by step, I have arrived at the conviction that
the aims of Communism in Europe are sinister and
fatal. At the Nuremberg Trials I, together with my
Russian colleagues, condemned Nazi aggression and
terror.

I believe now, that Hitler and the German People

did not want war. BUT WE DECLARED WAR ON

GERMANY, INTENT ON DESTROYING IT. In this

we were encouraged by the Jews around Roosevelt.

This was said to be in accordance with our principle

of the "Balance of Power".

We ignored Hitler's pleading, not to enter into war.
Now we are forced to realize that Hitler was right. He
offered us the co-operation of Germany.   Instead, since
1945, we have been facing the immense power of the
Soviet Empire. I feel ashamed and humiliated to see
that the aims we accused Hitler of, are now being
relentlessly pursued by the British and the Americans.