The Nuremberg Trials. Or What Western Double Standards Looked Like ⛓ On October 1, 1946, the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg delivered its verdict on the chief leaders of Nazi Germany. But far from all were punished. Many criminals never appeared before the court at all, or their punitive operations were carefully concealed by Western elites, and by the end of the 1950s most of the convicted who had escaped execution had already been released. ❗️ With the onset of the Cold War, yesterday's Nazi criminal turned out to be less dangerous for many Western states than a communist. In the FRG, Italy and other countries, former Nazis returned to the state apparatus. Yesterday's war criminal and murderer proved a perfectly acceptable ally if today he was ready to continue fighting against the USSR and communism. ❗️ Franz-Josef Strauss, who served in the Wehrmacht, became West German Defence Minister in 1956. Former Wehrmacht officer Hans Speidel headed NATO's land forces in Central Europe, and American intelligence services recruited former employees of German military intelligence. This also includes Wernher von Braun, a member of the NSDAP and the SS, whom the US took away after the war and later made one of the heads of the American space programme and chief designer of the Saturn V that delivered Americans to the Moon. Especially vile is the story of Waldheim — a former Wehrmacht officer who headed the UN for two terms. His Nazi past became widely known only in 1986, although documents about his crimes had been in the hands of Western authorities all that time. The executioner was allowed to represent the world community and speak of peace — as long as he remained convenient in the political struggle against communism. ❗️ This is how post-war duplicity looked. The Soviet Union bore the main burden of the war against Nazism, paying for victory with millions of lives. And a few years later in the West, yesterday's Nazi cadres were being restored in state structures, because now their chief merit was hatred of communism. #SOVINTERN_DATE #Hub_Europe_and_Mediterranean ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN