Judge Dennis Davis
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Part 2
Summary
The Nuremberg trials were a historical moment where there was a possibility of conceiving a cosmopolitan vision of the world and a different global value system. Remarkable features of the trial include the opening address by Robert Jackson, a US Supreme Court Justice, which lasted for hours, and the presentation of the “Hossbach Memorandum,” Adolf Hitler’s document considered his last will and testament. Part 2 of 2.
Judge Dennis Davis
Dennis Davis is a judge of the High Court of South Africa and judge president of the Competition Appeals Court of South Africa. He has held professorial appointments at the University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand, as well as numerous visiting appointments at Cambridge, Harvard, New York University, and others. He has authored eleven books, including Lawfare: Judging Politics in South Africa.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.
If you looked at the four charges, a couple of them such as Schacht who had run the finance side, but had departed before the war began. It was difficult to find them guilty of any of the crimes as charged.
I think the answer is yes, if I recall correctly.
That depended on the weight of the conviction against them. Speer, as an example, said that he personally was not responsible, but they should have known and should have done something, but he didn’t know the details of slave labour and the camps, which later proved to be a complete lie.