Hello everyone I'm your host James Rogers and this is the History Hit Warfare Podcast.

This Saturday marks 76 years since the start of the Nuremberg trials.

So I've brought back an episode from the history hit archive with historian and journalist Tom Boa

Tom's book is fascinating. It's called Blind Eye to Murder and it examines the

controversial policies of the Allied powers towards the Nazi leaders after the Second World War.

Most importantly, Tom argues that the Nazi war crimes, the most high-ranking ones, were allowed to escape trial. This is a fascinating episode. I really

like bringing back these ones that I think deserve a second look from the History Hit

archive, but remember each week, every week we bring you two brand new military history

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One of the big lessons that we should be thinking about on this anniversary of the Nuremberg

trial, should we patting ourselves on the back and talk about international law and

precedence, or should we remember some of the hypocrisy in the politics that got in the way?

Well, I think we should first of all remember that it was an amazing feat to establish the court

and to establish the guilt and that was because the prosecution very well

established their guilt through documents and through oral evidence.

It was a lot of pick-ups on the way during the trial,

but my feeling is that if we hadn't had the Nuremberg trial,

anti-Semitism, the Holocaust denial

would be far more rampant now than if we'd not have the

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