…eagues soon supplied supporting documentation to Justice Jackson. Over the coming months, his team, including Robinson, gathered much more. When Jackson opened the Nuremberg trial on November 21, 1945, he described the evidence that the Allies would offer: The conspiracy or common plan to exterminate the Jew was so methodically and thoroughly pursued that despite the German defeat and Nazi prostration, this Nazi aim largely has succeeded. Only rem…

…aration of human rights; “Law is the expression of the general will”; “The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man.” And so forth. Through principles like these the Revolution had vindicated the rights of man; it stood for liberty, enlightenment, and brotherhood. To the best spirits of Europe it was the dawn of a dazzling new age. Definitely, it was a forward movement. Gradually this great human mo…