The Nuremberg Trial Quotes

“There comes a point where a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his conscience.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“He asked Ribbentrop if he knew what a ‘yes-man’ was. Yes, said Ribbentrop, in German it means ‘a man who obeys orders and is obedient and loyal’. Unwittingly he had produced an epitaph for Nazi officialdom.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“If you admit to having believed in a man, it is uncomfortable to accept him as a criminal;”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“We must make it clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the War, but that they started it.’ (”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“We do not accept the paradox that legal responsibility should be least where the power is the greatest,’ said Jackson and he quoted Lord Chief Justice Coke’s rebuke to James I: ‘A King is still under God and the law.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“You must put no man on trial before anything that is called a court… under forms of judicial proceeding, if you are not willing to see him freed if not proved guilty.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“The indictment introduced a new word to the English language – ‘genocide”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“(nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege previa).”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“he described Hitler as ‘a man of gigantic personality who, however, in the end assumed infernal powers’.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“essential moral weakness of this narcissist had been clearly shown in the manner in which he had subdued his indignation at the betrayal … under the influence of Goering’s aggressive cynicism, nationalism and pose of romantic heroism.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“Not only did few of them sense a moral responsibility for the part they had played, few of them thought to question whether they should.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives but that progress in law may never be made at the price of morally guilty lives.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgement of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“new evils require new remedies … new sanctions to defend and vindicate the eternal principles of right and wrong’.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“Of all these men, who but a year ago enjoyed wide influence or supreme power, not one could find a refuge in a continent united in hate against them.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the War, but that they started it.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“these are not days in which the people of the world are inclined to quibble over precedents.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“a legal right is not lost because it is not used.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“We may be certain that we do less injustice by the worst processes of the law than would be done by the best use of violence.”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial

“four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgement of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.’ He”
― Ann Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial