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By No Man's Leave
Robert Jackson
其他書名
The Opening Speech of the Nuremberg Trials
出版Persian Flaw Press, 2022-08-22
主題Law / GeneralPolitical Science / General
ISBN9798985418637
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wRxMzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason." These are the solemn words of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson. In 1945, after the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, President Harry S. Truman appointed Jackson as chief American prosecutor for the Nuremberg trials against captured Nazi officials. His lucid and powerful prose is nowhere more elegant than in his speech opening the trials, a speech that he considered the most important task of his life. Here is Jackson's entire speech, gently edited. Once described as "a masterpiece of detective work," it is the ideal text to reread throughout one's life: for the beauty of its clear and commanding style and for its sobering depiction of human evil. 70 black-and-white photographs included.