I'm here again with Thomas 777.

How are you doing, Thomas?

And thank you again.

No problem.

Let's talk about Nuremberg.

Yeah, what I wanted to get into today at long last, before we did our deep dive into the kind of bizarre and tragic case of Rudolph Hess. We started to get into the

politics and intrigues and the nuances of the Norberg Tribunal and, you know, how, what the

implications were for the death of Mr. Roosevelt and, you know, the, and the ascendancy to office of

Harry Truman, you know, and how this was a game changer in some ways,

but yet how much of the new dealer regime, you know, remained very much intact.

You know, and this was essential understanding the kind of form that the tribunal took.

And I realized that I've been dropping a whole lot of background on this, but I believe it's essential to understanding.

If we were just dive into the proceedings, that would leave too many questions and answer, okay?

And by the time that, by the time of the actual proceedings, it was somewhat of a foregone conclusion what the outcome would be, okay?

And it will become clear

what i mean by that as we go on but where i want to begin this discussion today you know is quite

literally in the closing months of the war closing weeks really okay and crazy as it might sound it was

you know the first real mention concrete mention you know of any kind of trial um was at yalta okay you know, the first real mention, concrete mention, you know, of any kind of trial, was at Yalta, okay, you know, in the closing months and weeks of the war.

You know, it's not like this was something that was planned for years or anything like that.

And, you know, as we scratch the service of Churchill, he was very, you know, he was insistent that, you know, the, the Reich leadership should just be summarily executed, okay, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, they, they, they, they, they. in the episode before the Hess series, you know,

the Soviets, uh, they, they, they certainly did not afford people due process. They made a mockery

due process. But they also they, it was, it was their protocol to always avail, you know,

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