FORBIDDEN HISTORY. At the Dachau U.S. Military Tribunals, interrogators posed as priests to extract confessions. 

The American judge, Edward L. Van Roden, one of the three members of an American Army Commission set up to investigate claims of maltreatment, found:

Cruelest Torture

‘Posturing as priests to hear confessions and give absolution; torture with burning matches driven under the prisoners’ fingernails; knocking out of teeth and breaking jaws; solitary confinement and near-starvation rations. 

Solitary confinement for months

The statements which were admitted as evidence were obtained from men who had first been kept in solitary confinement for three, four, and five months.

The American investigators would put a black hood over the head of the accused and then punch him in the face with brass knuckles, kick him and beat him with rubber hoses.

Testicles of prisoners destroyed

‘All but two of the German captives, in the 139 cases investigated, had been kicked in the testicles beyond repair.  This was standard operating procedure with our American investigators.’

‘Low-rank prisoners were assured that convictions were being sought only against higher-ranking officers, and they had absolutely nothing to lose by co-operating and making the desired statements. 

Such ‘evidence’ was then used against them when they joined their superiors in the dock. 

The latter were told, on the other hand, that by ‘confession’, they would take all responsibility onto their own shoulders, thus shielding their men from trial.’

A favorite stratagem

‘A favorite stratagem, when a prisoner refused to co-operate, was to arrange a mock trial. In these, death sentences were passed, then offers of a ‘reprieve’ if he confessed. 

Sometimes a prisoner would be threatened with being handed over to the Russians, his family deprived of their ration cards, or worse.’

Admissions of the torturers

Colonel A. H Rosenfeld upon whose rulings the admissibility was final, when asked about these sham trials, replied, ‘Yes, of course.  We couldn’t have made these birds talk otherwise… it was a trick, and it worked like a charm.’   

‘Hearsay evidence was admitted indiscriminately and sworn statements of witnesses were admissible regardless of whether anybody knew the person who made the statement or the individual who took the statement.’ – George McDonough, American Lawyer, New York Times

Bogus Witnesses

The circus aspect of these show trials was such that when a bogus witness using the name Einstein tearfully accused a German named Menzel of murdering his brother, the defendant pointed out that his brother was alive, well, and sitting in the court. 

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Worse than Stalin’s Show Trials

The presiding investigator scolded Einstein.  ‘How can we bring this pig to the gallows if you are so stupid as to bring your brother into court?’

Hardly surprising, therefore, that the highest-ranking military commanders, predominantly but not exclusively from the Allied side, condemned the Nuremberg Trials as a judicial farce and a disgrace to civilized behavior. 

Thousands of eminent statesmen, jurists, intellectuals, writers, journalists, ecclesiastics and educators echoed their condemnation.

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