The Nuremberg Trials: Was It Fair?

Another reason that the court itself was not fair was that the four Allied Powers and their judge representatives came into the trials with strong anti-German approaches and they did not judge the Germans objectively and Fairley. Both the Soviet Union, France, The United States and Britain blamed Germany for its horrible acts during World War II and they put that blame on the individual defendants instead of Germany as a whole. The Soviet Union blamed the defendants for murdering many people and for turning their land into desert. In 1943, the Soviet leader Josef Stalin said to Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt that 50,000-10,000 German commanders should be murdered (Scheffer). The French blamed the defendants for systematically plundering their country and for murdering and torturing tens of thousands of French people in the Gestapo jails and in concentration camps.
Roosevelt, agreed to the plan of summary execution of 2,500 Nazis in 1944. Secretary of War Henry Stimson was the one who advocated for a fair trial with basic rights for the defendants which was eventually the system that was used in the Nuremberg Trials. The British wanted 50-100 top Nazi leaders executed and according to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, these Nazis should be executed within six hours of capture (Scheffer). The judges in the Nuremberg Trials represented these 4 nations and their views towards the prosecution of German war criminals. This was not fair for the Germans because the judges of the trial were biased and did not judge each defendant for himself but as a citizen of Nazi