William Schabas, professor of international law at Middlesex University and an internationally recognised expert on genocide law, responded to Reyntjens’ claim of ‘victor’s justice’. Schabas had visited Nuremberg a year earlier and told the symposium that he had not heard Germans saying the Nuremberg trials of the Nazis were defective, that they inhibited reconciliation because they only prosecuted one side. He wondered what balanced justice at the end of World War II might have looked like.
