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October 2nd, 2012, 04:45 PM
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/08-31-46.asp
At the above link the full statements made by the defendants at Nuremberg.I am sure I have read them in their entirety before but I found it interesting to read again.Even Frank redeems himself ( a bit) with his reference to the then unfolding massacre of German women and children by the slavs
"There is still one statement of mine which I must rectify. On the witness stand I said that a thousand years would not suffice to erase the guilt brought upon our people because of Hitler's conduct in this war. Every possible guilt incurred by our nation has already been, completely wiped out today, not only by the conduct of our war-time enemies towards our nation and its soldiers, which has been carefully kept out of this Trial, but also
by the tremendous mass crimes of the most frightful sort which-as I have now learned-have been and still are being committed against Germans by Russians, Poles, and Czechs, especially in East Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania, and Sudetenland. Who shall ever judge these crimes against the German people?"
At the above link the full statements made by the defendants at Nuremberg.I am sure I have read them in their entirety before but I found it interesting to read again.Even Frank redeems himself ( a bit) with his reference to the then unfolding massacre of German women and children by the slavs
"There is still one statement of mine which I must rectify. On the witness stand I said that a thousand years would not suffice to erase the guilt brought upon our people because of Hitler's conduct in this war. Every possible guilt incurred by our nation has already been, completely wiped out today, not only by the conduct of our war-time enemies towards our nation and its soldiers, which has been carefully kept out of this Trial, but also
by the tremendous mass crimes of the most frightful sort which-as I have now learned-have been and still are being committed against Germans by Russians, Poles, and Czechs, especially in East Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania, and Sudetenland. Who shall ever judge these crimes against the German people?"