Tag: Nuremberg’s Lessons

NOVANEWS By Benjamin B. Ferencz published: September 2010 source: A New Introduction to Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy by Telford Taylor publisher: Foundations of the Laws of War series, The Lawbook Exchange When this book was published in 1970, Telford Taylor had concluded that U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam was an American tragedy: “Somehow we failed ourselves to learn the lessons we undertook to teach at Nuremberg.”[1] What were those lessons? How acceptable were they? Which laws of war could realistically be enforced on a raging battlefield against an implacable foe? Forty years later, it is worth re-examining how it came about that this powerful and humanitarian country could have come to be seen by many as a giant “prone to shatter what we try to save.”[2] What ...