Senator Robert A. Taft (1889-1953) was a US Senator from Ohio.
He was one of the few courageous men who condemned the Nuremberg trials as a violation of the most basic principles of international norms of justice as well as American standards of justice. According to him, these trials were victor’s justice in which the winners of the war were the prosecutors, the judges, and the alleged victims, all at the same time.
He said:
‘I question whether the hanging of those, who, however despicable, were the leaders of the German people, will ever discourage the making of aggressive war, for no one makes aggressive war unless he expects to win. About this whole judgment there is the spirit of vengeance, and vengeance is seldom justice. The hanging of the eleven men convicted will be a blot on the American record which we shall long regret.’
He has been described in Chapter 9 of the book Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy.
He said:
‘I question whether the hanging of those, who, however despicable, were the leaders of the German people, will ever discourage the making of aggressive war, for no one makes aggressive war unless he expects to win. About this whole judgment there is the spirit of vengeance, and vengeance is seldom justice. The hanging of the eleven men convicted will be a blot on the American record which we shall long regret.’
He has been described in Chapter 9 of the book Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy.
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