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THE GERMAN OVERSEAS ensemble, of the American authorities to see the Nuremberg defendants tried and punished under the valid German law. In 1944, when I was an assistant To the Editor-in-chief of Time, Life and Fortune, I was called to Washington to discuss the possibilities of prosecuting the Nazis under the valid German law – and no other possibility was even mentioned in the conversations.

But a few months later, the brand-new rules of the “International War-Guilt Trials” went into effect. What had happened in the meantime? It is one of the many merits of Davidson’s work that a careful and analytical reader of The Trial of the Germans can put two and two together (though not exactly under the guidance of the author), and learn that the Soviet government pushed the governments of England and the United States into the shameful Nuremberg procedures.

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THE GERMAN OVERSEAS ensemble, of the American authorities to see the Nuremberg defendants tried and punished under the valid German law. In 1944, when I was an assistant To the Editor-in-chief of Time, Life and Fortune, I was called to Washington to discuss the possibilities of prosecuting the Nazis under the valid German law – and no other possibility was even mentioned in the conversations.

But a few months later, the brand-new rules of the “International War-Guilt Trials” went into effect. What had happened in the meantime? It is one of the many merits of Davidson’s work that a careful and analytical reader of The Trial of the Germans can put two and two together (though not exactly under the guidance of the author), and learn that the Soviet government pushed the governments of England and the United States into the shameful Nuremberg procedures.