{"id":57590,"date":"2012-10-26T00:24:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T00:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=57590"},"modified":"2012-10-31T17:51:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T17:51:25","slug":"declassified-account-shows-britain-favoured-execution-over-nuremberg-trials-for-nazi-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/declassified-account-shows-britain-favoured-execution-over-nuremberg-trials-for-nazi-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Declassified Account Shows Britain Favoured Execution Over Nuremberg Trials For Nazi Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Declassified account shows Britain would have preferred to see Nazi leaders executed or imprisoned at end of second world war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The British government opposed the establishment of the Nuremberg war crimes tribunals at the end of the\u00a0second world war\u00a0because it wanted selected Nazi leaders to be summarily executed and others to be imprisoned without trial, according to a contemporary account that is declassifiedon Friday.&#8221; the Guardian reports.<\/p>\n<p>Winston Churchill\u00a0made the proposal at the &#8220;Big Three&#8221; conference at Yalta in February 1945, according to the account, but was overruled by Franklin D Roosevelt, who believed the US public would demand proper trials, and\u00a0Joseph Stalin, who argued that public trials possessed excellent propaganda value.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/oct\/26\/britain-execution-nuremberg-nazi-leaders\">Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":57591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402,1,2375],"tags":[5907,5905,5906,5904],"class_list":["post-57590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-stories","tag-nuremberg-trials-for-nazi-leaders","tag-war-crime-britain","tag-war-crime-britain-nuremberg-trials","tag-war-crime-uk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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