A reader writes:
Re: the post about Hannah Arendt and the lack of nuance when looking back at WWII. I was a friend of the late Henry King Jr., one of the last of the surviving Nuremberg prosecutors. He gave a talk at a local church a few years ago about his Nuremberg experience. During the Q & A, someone asked about the Soviet participation in the tribunal. How, the person asked, could the Soviets be included as arbiters of justice when they themselves were so unjust and ruthless to even their own citizenry?
Henry, dry sense of humor intact to the end, smiled and replied: "There really was no question about including the Russians. Since, let's face it, they won the war."
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