ABSTRACT
Justice Robert Harry Jackson and Telford Taylor had themselves during the war viewed tales of German outrage with reserve. To critics, Jackson's apologia was deficient. It did not rectify the wrong perpetrated at Nuremberg and, by extension, in Tokyo. In both instances, the objection ran, triumphant states had inflicted victor's justice and retroactive laws while labeling as singular the wartime transgressions of vanquished people. Security at the Justizpalast was provided by a garrison of young GIs—commanded by Colonel Burton Andrus—who yearned to return to US shores and strained against prohibitions, ever weakening, on fraternization with local frauleins. Operating under Control Council Law Number Ten of 20 December 1945, the Nuremberg Military Tribunals involved twelve sets of charges against 185 defendants and heard testimony from 1,300 witnesses. As in Europe, Japanese civilian and military leaders were charged with trespass and cruelty. The assumption was that the findings of Unit 731 would benefit US medical science and military technology.
