BBCNEWS HARDtalk December 29, 2021 00:34:00
Of their shortcomings? no, it was a revolutionary moment. this had never happened before in human history — that the leaders of a state, germany vanquished, should be put on trial before an international tribunal — this was a completely new thing. and as part of that process, new crimes were invented — genocide, the killing of groups, crimes against humanity, the killing of individuals. there's a problem, of course, these crimes did not exist in 1939 or 1942 as such, and so they were applied retroactively. well, they weren't on the charge sheet, where they, genocide was not on the charge...