The Nuremberg Trials Quotes

“It is a disquieting fact that we tend to find villains more interesting than their victims – in fiction and in reality – but the Nuremberg Trials revealed that in real life criminals and murderers are invariably colourless individuals, who lack personality as well as compassion and conscience. It is their victims who frequently display courage and endurance beyond normal human experience. And”
― Paul Roland, The Nuremberg Trials: The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity

“For three days, I couldn’t take my eyes off Goering, who lounged in the dock like a bored Roman emperor… As concentration camp survivors testified, I sometimes caught Goering’s cold, unblinking stare, which was full of contempt for the Tribunal and the witnesses. When the prosecution showed films of piled-up corpses at Auschwitz, Goering kept turning his head away, sometimes in my direction. I’m ashamed to say he stared me down, because I’d never before felt myself in the presence of such unmitigated evil.”
― Paul Roland, The Nuremberg Trials: The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity

“I propose today to prove to you that all this organized and vast criminality springs from what I may be allowed to call a crime against the spirit, I mean a doctrine which, denying all spiritual, rational, or moral values by which the nations have tried, for thousands of years, to improve human conditions, aims to plunge humanity back into barbarism, no longer the natural and spontaneous barbarism of primitive nations, but into a diabolical barbarism, conscious of”
― Paul Roland, The Nuremberg Trials: The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity

“But I revere women and I think it unsportsmanlike to kill children…”
― Paul Roland, The Nuremberg Trials: The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity

“His face was frozen in a grimace, as if he had woken from a bad dream only to find that he had not been asleep at all.”
― Paul Roland, The Nuremberg Trials: The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity