I am still waiting for you to evidence "systemic issues" with investigations into those who were responsible for and assisted the Nazis with the Holocaust. You appear to have not known that each nation conducted its own investigations, prosecuting its own citizens, and citizens from other countries who had been based there during the war.Archie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 18, 2026 2:07 pmThe Norwegians purged all the fascists from the government after the war. Whoa, who could have seen that coming? Now I'm really going to have to rethink everything!Nessie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 18, 2026 1:42 pmYour argument appears to be that when a victor prosecutes the vanquished, that is a "systemic" issue. But more detail is needed. If a victor prosecutes the vanquished for crimes that are proven to have been committed, what are the "systemic" issues? When countries from Norway to Romania also prosecuted their own nationals and nationals from other countries, extradited to be tried for their roles in the Holocaust during the war, how does that fit with the victor prosecuting the vanquished?Archie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 18, 2026 1:33 pm Since Nessie is obviously struggling:
The IMT was an "international" tribunal. USA, UK, France, USSR. It seems to have escaped Nessie's notice that these countries were coincidentally Germany's enemies during the war.
The NMT - American run.
Supreme National Tribunal - Communist Poland (the Poles had also been enemies of Germany, plus add the Soviet/Communist influence)
'Muh West German Trials'
-The Bonn Government was the consequence of Allied occupation and denazification policies. It joined NATO in 1955. There are still American troops there today.
-The trials were the brainchild of a Jewish prosecutor named Fritz Bauer
-At the start of Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, they had several historians from the Institut fur Zeitgeschichte (an institute set up to police the history of the Third Reich era) and give the "historical context" for the trial, i.e., all the findings of the earlier show trials.![]()
There's no way Vidkun Quisling was going to remain in power in Norway after the fall of the Reich.
There were issues, with Holocaust related trials in Belgium, namely legal jurisdiction, a lack of evidence due to the Nazis destroying documents and the lack of witnesses;
https://www.antwerpcommemorates.be/arch ... to-justice
"By comparison, another group of victims was clearly underexposed, namely that of the Jewish deportees.
While this applied to Belgium as a whole, this was particularly evident in Antwerp.
In several cases involving Flemish SS officers, the military tribunal made very little of their involvement in the deportations. A number of important German leaders were also able to evade judicial proceedings. Erich Holm, the head of the Anti-Jewish section of the Sipo SD in Antwerp, was never arrested, for example. There were several reasons for this. After the war, Belgian legislation was not adapted to the Holocaust. As a result, military tribunals did not have the right legal framework for investigating the persecution of the Jews. During the first years after the war, there was also a lack of basic information about the Holocaust. Due to the low survival rate of deportees, there was also a lack of witnesses. The Germans also destroyed many important archives at the end of the war."
