PROCES DE NUREMBERG

par Lun 5 Nov 2007 - 20:07

Petite lecture sur le proces de Nuremberg :

JAMES OWEN, Nuremberg. Evil on Trial , ed. HeadLine Review, 2006

L'auteur :

James Owen studied History at Oxford, and was a barrister before becoming a journalist. He writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph, The Times, and the Financial Times. His previous books are A Serpent in Eden, shortlisted for the 2005 CWA Gold Dagger for non-fiction, and The Voice of War : The WWII Told By Those Who Fought It, with Guy Walters. He is married and lives in London and Rome.

Le livre :

Ben voila un p'tit bouquin sans prise de tete sur l'un des plus grands proces de l'Histoire. Sans prise de tete parce que l'auteur ne fait pas de polemique : il se contente de retranscrire le proces dans ses grandes lignes, tel qu'il s'est deroule au fil des mois.

Un resume clair et concis, qui s'appuye essentiellement sur les transcriptions, memoires, journaux, notes et autres documents emanant du tribunal, des accuses, des juges, des differents temoins etc... Un patchwork de textes, faisceau de regards, qui donne donc une bonne vue d'ensemble : justice de vainqueurs, problemes d'harmonisation des legislations entre differentes pratiques judiciaires ( sovietique, francaise, anglo-saxonne ), mais aussi l'effroyable horreur d'un regime a la brutalite monstrueuse, porte par des leaders souvent d'une banalite -voire d'une mediocrite- effarante...

Une lecture froide, mais qui laisse beaucoup de questions en suspens.

Lisez-le ou pas ( apres tout je suis sur qu'on peut trouver un bon equivalent en francais ), je veux juste citer ces quelques mots du Procureur Jackson lors de son discours de cloture :

"In the Nazi dictionary of sardonic euphemisms "final solution" of the Jewish problem was a phrase which meant extermination;
"special treatment" of prisoners of war meant killing;
"protective custody" meant concentration camp;
"duty labour" meant slave labour;
and an order to "take a firm attitude" or "take positive measures" meant to act with unrestrained savagery. Before we accept their word at what seems to be its face, we must always look for hidden meanings...

This was the philosophy of the National Socialists. When for years they have deceived the world, and masked falsehood with plausibilities, can anyone be surprised that they continue their habit of a lifetime in this dock ? (...) these defendants now ask this Tribunal to say that they are not guilty of planing, executing, or conspiring to commit this long list of crimes and wrongs. They stand before the record of this trial as bloodstained Gloucester stood by the body of his slain king. He begged of the widow, as they beg of you : "Say I slew them not". And the Queen replied, "Then say they were not slain. But dead they are..." If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say that there has been no war, there are no slain, there has been no crime."

par **Baalberith** Mar 6 Nov 2007 - 15:31

Arf, je viens justement de faire passer des élèves à l'oral en guise d'exposé de fin de trimestre sur le sujet la semaine dernière!;
)

A noter qu'il existe un film (the Tokyo trial) chinois sur le sujet du procès de Tokyo, mais bon, chapeau à celui qui arrive à le choper!

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