INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES 101
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Jackson
Chief U.S. Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Tribunals
August 12, 1945
"We must make clear to the
Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is
not that they lost the war, but that they started it.
And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes
of the war, for our position is that no grievances or policies will
justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned
as an instrument of policy."