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smell while Hitler may have bid the world auf wiedersehen in April 1945 [Hitler waving goodbye]

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there were plenty of other high-ranking and very naughty Nazis in allied custody [Nazi's in jail cells]

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at the end of the war and what do you do with bad people well you stick those

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suckers on trial welcome to Law & Order Nuremberg well

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the trials at Nuremberg which took place from November 1945 through October 1946 [european map]

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weren't just a spur-of-the-moment thing in fact the Allies started planning to

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bring any Nazi leaders left standing at the end of the war to justice way back

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in 1942 but what were they gonna charge these guys with crimes like murder and [stacks of papers in court house]

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assault well it just didn't cover what the Nazis had done so the Allies

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invented new crimes Nazis could be accused of crimes against peace also

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known as launching a war against an unsuspecting country and just for the

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heck of it they could be accused of war crimes also known as being less than [old photos of WWII]

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nice to civilians and prisoners of war during a conflict yeah about that

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program and they could also be accused of crimes against humanity also known as

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the Holocaust yeah we have a problem with using Nazis of war crimes anyone [picture of the Holocaust]

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raise your hand if you have a problem with that I always wanted to know well

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22 senior military and political leaders from Germany were indicted and put on

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trial at Nuremberg as were seven Nazi organizations you've heard of some of

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these guys Hermann Goering was Hitler's right-hand man and an avid collector of

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other people's art Joaquim von Ribbentrop had a non-aggression pact

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named after him and Albert Speer was Hitler's favorite architect well most of

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the men put on trial at Nuremberg were found guilty some of them died for their

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crimes some of them served prison sentences one

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of them Albert Speer even apologized for the evil acts he'd been a part of I'm

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pretty sure hallmark doesn't make a card for atrocities on this scale while the

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Nuremberg trials got the job done and laid the groundwork for all future

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international criminal tribunals they weren't perfect the Allies didn't always

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behave ethically when it came to hunting down Nazis to put on trial but to find [woman beating up Nazi with a baseball bat]

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ethics for me on Nazi hunting hmm anyone do that the

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definition of what constituted a war crime is also well problematic legalese

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here yeah lawyers furthermore not all Nazis even

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ended up on trial well Operation Paperclip was a program conducted by the

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Office of Strategic Services a predecessor to the CIA it was also voted

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program with the dumbest code name narrowly beating out operation

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rubberband and operation binder clip and we were just kidding don't write that in

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your paper more than 1500 German engineers scientists and other personnel [scientists sail over to the US on a paperclip]

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were brought to the u.s. to build rockets and keep all that lovely Nazi

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technical brilliance out of Soviet hands while President Truman specifically

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ordered Nazis to be kept out of Operation Paperclip

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he was circumvented because spies are smarter than presidents and we're not

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the only ones hoping for a double O 7 Maxwell Smart ticket in the next [700 comes into view]

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election right yeah better than what we got also the u.s. really really really

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needed those boom sticks because as any kid who's open a brand-new rocket ship [scientists in rocket lab]

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on Christmas morning can tell you nothing quite like that new rocket ship [kid gets rocket for christmas]

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smell yeah - stranger kind of dr. Strangelove [man riding rocket]

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