Robert H. Jackson (1892 - 1954)
Chief United States prosecutor
at the International Military
Tribunal at Nuremberg
Stated the in an October 6, 1945
letter to US President Harry S.
Truman
"(the Allied Nations) have
done or are doing some of the very
things we are prosecuting
the Germans for. The French are so
violating the Geneva Convention in the
treatment of
(the German) prisoners of war that
our command is taking back prisoners sent to
them.
We are prosecuting plunder and our
Allies are practising it. We say
aggressive war is a crime and
one of our allies asserts
sovereignty over the
Baltic States based on no title
except conquest."
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