Adolf Hitler: Hirohito: On Trials

By Jean Sénat Fleury

Hirohito: The Trial of the Emperor is a book of information and training, a reference book that should be read as an educational tool on Japan’s war in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The book opens the debate on Hirohito’s responsibility during World War II with a posthumous trial against the Japanese emperor before the Permanent Peoples’ Court for crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.


Career judge, teacher, writer, Jean Sénat Fleury was born in Haiti and currently lives in Boston. A former intern at the National School of Magistrates (Paris and Bordeaux), he has held various positions within the Haitian judiciary. He was in turn a trainer at the National Police Academy (1995-1996) and director of studies at the School of Magistrates of Pétion-Ville (2000-2004). Author of the book on The Stamp Trial, he wrote several other historical works such as: Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Words from Beyond the Grave, Toussaint Louverture: The Trial of the Slave Trafficking, Adolf Hitler: Trial in Absentia in Nuremberg, and The Trial of Osama Bin Laden.
Mr. Fleury had immigrated to the United States in 2007. He earned a master’s degree in public administration and a second in political science from Suffolk University. In 2014, Mr. Fleury became director of the Caribbean Arts Gallery, and founded a charity organization called Art-For-Change. His recent book, Hirohito: Guilty or Innocent: The Trial of the Emperor, is a historical account, written in a novelistic style. The book provides an understanding of the atrocities of the Imperial Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, particularly the crimes of Unit 731.

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Jean Sénat Fleury

Career judge, teacher, writer, Jean Sénat Fleury was born in Haiti and currently lives in Boston. A former intern at the National School of Magistrates (Paris and Bordeaux), he has held various positions within the Haitian judiciary. He was in turn a trainer at the National Police Academy (1995–1996) and director of studies at the School of Magistrates of Pétion-Ville (2000–2004). Author of the book The Stamp Trial, he wrote several other historical works such as: Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Words from Beyond the Grave, Toussaint Louverture: The Trial of the Slave Trafficking, Adolf Hitler: Trial in Absentia in Nuremberg, The Trial of Osama Bin Laden, Hirohito: Guilty or Innocent: The Trial of the Emperor, and Adolf Hitler and Hirohito: On Trials. Mr. Fleury had emigrated to the United States in 2007. He earned a master’s degree in public administration and a second in political science from Suffolk University. His new book, Japan’s Empire Disaster provides an understanding of the expansionist policy practiced by Japan during the end of the nineteenth and the first period of the twentieth century.

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AUTHOR’S NOTE

The literary inventory concerning Hirohito is not very voluminous, unlike that on Adolf Hitler, where the research done on the Führer does not fail to report the heinous crimes of the Nazis against a well-defined category of men, the Jews. Here, it is not a question of conducting any debate on the two main figures of the Second World War. They were two monsters. The only difference is that there are a lot of writings on Hitler, while very few books have been published on Hirohito.

History has always presented Hitler as a monster, a fierce dictator, responsible for the deaths of millions of soldiers and civilians during the Second World War. On the other hand, we have long been forced to believe in a false speech, namely, that Hirohito has no responsibility for the war crimes committed by the Japanese imperial forces between 1937 and 1945 in the Pacific. Having his power totally limited by ministers and the military, it is therefore normal that the emperor be absolved of the war crimes of the Japanese Imperial Army and the Japanese Imperial Navy during the Shōwa era. The Meiji Constitution of February 11, 1889, certainly gives him the authority to choose the prime minister and the members of the High Staff of the Army. However, the emperor in Japan has symbolic power. Before the new constitution of 1946, he was a living god, and therefore he should not interfere in political matters.

Our opinion on the matter is very different. In our eyes, Hitler was a sadistic criminal, one of the most bloodthirsty in human history. Hirohito, for his part, was a cunning and perverse monarch. Hidden in the shadows, he directed the actions of Japanese troops who occupied, during the Second World War, almost all of the territories in the Pacific and in the Southeast Asia.

Never having faced each other in their existence, the two men ― Hitler and Hirohito ― have gone down in history as two evil political partners. German ideology and Japanese ideology are somewhat different, but the principles are the same: conquer territories in order to have raw materials while accentuating if necessary, a territorial enlargement. German and Japanese expansionist desires are at the origin of the alliance between the two countries. The ambition to dominate Europe led Hitler to invade the majority of European countries (Czechoslovakia, Poland, Belgium, Greece, Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Denmark, France, Norway, Russia) in the name of the superiority of the German race over other peoples.

Hitler realized his plans to conquer Europe by annexing Austria in March 1938: it is the Anschluss. After a provocation operation known as the Gleiwitz incident, German troops invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. On September 3, 1939, France and the United Kingdom declared war on Germany under a treaty of February 1921, which bound them to Poland. Thus, the Second World War broke out in Europe. On May 10, 1940, seven months after the declaration of war of France and England to Germany, Hitler broke the Western front. He launched his armies on the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. The war had really begun. On June 22, 1941, Nazi troops entered Russia without any declaration of war.

For their part, dissatisfied with the treatment accorded to the Japanese empire by the Western powers during the Treaty of Versailles and the naval treaties of Washington and London, Japanese politicians developed an ideology based on the superiority of the Japanese race and its rights to dominate Asia. Japan, sidelined by Western democracies for having attacked Manchuria in 1931, followed by the rest of China in 1937, signed on September 27, 1940, the tripartite pact with Germany and Italy. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked the American base at Pearl Harbor. The next day, December 8, the United States declared war on Japan. On December 11, Hitler, under a treaty with Japan, declared war on the United States. The Second World War broke out in Asia.

Classified as the two main figures who broke out the Second World War, alongside Mussolini, Hitler and Hirohito remain in the eyes of several experts and historians as war criminals. This is the reason why I invented a fictitious trial against the two belligerents. I tried Hitler as a war criminal in my book, Adolf Hitler: Trial in Absentia in Nuremberg, and I did the same against Hirohito in the book, The Trial of the Emperor, Hirohito, Guilty or Innocent. The Führer was sentenced by default by a group of four judges during a fictitious trial in Nuremberg, and the Japanese monarch was tried by the Permanent People’s Court and posthumously was condemned during a public hearing in Paris.

The reason for the combination of the two trials is as follows: if Hitler and Hirohito had decided to join forces to share the world, then Germany would occupy Europe and America, Japan would have established its hegemony on the Asian continent and the Pacific, and finally Italy would extend its domination over Africa and the Middle East; why not compile the two trials, I told myself, one devoted to Hitler, and the other to Hirohito, and thus publish a new book under the title, Adolf Hitler and Hirohito: On Trials.

In the series of major missed trials in history, I tried Napoleon Bonaparte and several other dignitaries of the French monarchy and empire in my book Toussaint Louverture: The Trial of the Slave Trafficking. I prosecuted Osama bin Laden in the book, The Trial of Osama Bin Laden, where I invented the fictitious trial of the leader of al-Qaida. Now, I am happy to offer this compilation, Adolf Hitler and Hirohito: On Trials, to the general public.

Jean Sénat Fleury

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ADOLF HITLER

TRIAL IN ABSENTIA IN

NUREMBERG

JEAN SÉNAT FLEURY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

Prologue

PART A: THE NUREMBERG TRIAL

CHAPTER I: REFLECTION ON THE NUREMBERG TRIAL

CHAPTER II: THE ROAD TO POWER

CHAPTER III: THE ROAD TO WAR

CHAPTER IV: THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC

CONTEXT OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

CHAPTER V: THE DECLINE

CHAPTER VI: REPORT ON THE SECOND WORLD WAR

1)     The Consequences

CHAPTER VII: A HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST

CHAPTER VIII: THE NUREMBERG INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL

1)     Creation

2)     Minutes of the Nuremberg Trial

CHAPTER IX: ACTORS IN THE TRIAL

1)     The Judges

2)     The Assessors

3)     The Prosecutors

4)     The Lawyers

5)     The Accused

6)     Criminal Activities in Czechoslovakia

7)     Crimes against Peace

8)     War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity

9)     War Crimes

10)   Crimes against Peace

11)   War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity

CHAPTER X: SOME ELEMENTS OF THE TRIAL

CHAPTER XI: THE BENEFITS OF THE TRIAL

CHAPTER XII: OVERVIEW OF THE TRIAL

PART B: ANALYSIS OF THE NUREMBERG TRIAL

CHAPTER XIII: THE CONTEXT OF THE TRIAL

CHAPTER XIV: RELATION BETWEEN THE RED CROSS AND THE NAZIS

CHAPTER XV: RELATION BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE NAZIS

CHAPTER XVI: CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT, AND STALIN

CHAPTER XVII: CRITICS OF THE TRIAL

PART C: THE TR IAL

CHAPTER XVIII: OPENING STATEMENT AT THE HEARING

CHAPTER XIX: FIRST STATEMENT FOR THE PROSECUTION

CHAPTER XX: NAZI TERRORS IN THE CONQUERED LANDS

CHAPTER XXI: THE FINAL SOLUTION

CHAPTER XXII: THE CAPITULATION

CHAPTER XXIII: THE RESUMPTION OF THE HEARING

CHAPTER XXIV: SECOND STATEMENTS FOR THE PROSECUTION

1)   Hitler Was Not a Leader

CHAPTER XXV: COLLECTIVES SANCTIONS

1)   Treatment of Prisoners of War

CHAPTER XXVI: THE VERDICT

1)     Aggression and Crimes against Peace

2)     Attack Plan against Austria

3)     Attack Plan against Czechoslovakia

4)     Attack Plan against Poland

5)     Attack Plan against Yugoslavia and Greece

6)     Attack Plan against Belgium and France

7)     Attack Plan against Russia

8)     Attack Plan outside the European Territory

9)     On the Use of Doctrine in the Service of the Comprehensive or Complete Plan

10)   Crimes against the Economic Domain

11)   Crimes against Humanity

12)   On The Consequences of the War

13)   Hitler’s Complicity to the Nazi Criminals Sentenced and Condemned in Nuremberg

PART D: ANNEXE

CHAPTER XXVII: OPENING STATEMENT BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL

1)     The Lawless Road to Power:

2)     The Consolidation of Nazi Power:

•     1. The Battle against the Working Class:

•     2. The Battle against the Churches:

•     3. Crimes against the Jews:

3)     Terrorism and Preparation for War:

4)     Experiments in Aggression:

5)     War of Aggression:

6)     Conspiracy with Japan:

7)     Crimes in the Conduct of War.

8)     The Law of the Case:

9)     The Crime against Peace:

10)   The Law of Individual Responsibility:

11)   Even the German Military Code provides that:

12)   The Political, Police, and Military Organizations:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

DEDICATION

I write this book in memory of the victims of the Second World War with the hope that the narrative will open the eyes of the present and future generations on the atrocities of war and raise awareness of our leaders to value peace in the world.

To a well-known rescuer, Oskar Schindler, and to Princess Alice of Battenberg in Greece, who was the wife of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, mother of Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh, and mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Princess Alice stayed in occupied Athens during the Second World War, sheltering Jewish refugees, for which she is recognized as righteous among the nations at Yad Vashem.

To various organizations that attempted to facilitate the emigration of the Jews and non-Jews persecuted as Jews in Europe. Among the most active were the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, HICEM, the Central British Fund for German Jewry, the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden (Reich Representation of German Jews), which represented German Jewry, and other non-Jewish groups such as the League of Nations High Commission for Refugees (Jewish and Other) coming from Germany and the American Friends Service Committee.

Finally, in memory of the 26,973 men and women– righteous among the nations from fifty-one countries– who have been recognized as rescuers by Yad Vashem’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in Israel.

This book is also dedicated to all men and women who served in the liberation army during the Second World War and who carried with courage and determination the cause to liberate the world from the clutches of Hitler.

Revisiting history: it is not the privilege of a few or a negotiable right poorly granted or questioned by the State. It is, first of all, a necessity. It is also the inescapable current brought by the evolutionary points of view of the successive generations. It is, at the same time, an indispensable step if one wants to keep alive the memory of the Peoples.

• The Trial of Marshal Petain

As for the people I am accusing, I do not know them, I have never seen them, and I have no rancor or hatred against them. They are for me only entities, spirits of social malfeasance. And the act I am doing here is only a revolutionary way to hasten the explosion of truth and justice.

I have only one passion, that of light, in the name of humanity that has suffered so much and who has the right to happiness. My fiery protest is only the cry of my soul. So let’s dare translate me into the Assize Court and let the investigation take place! I wait.

• I accuse, Émile Zola

A thousand years will pass, and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

Hans Frank, governor general of Poland, before he was hanged at Nuremberg.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it.

George Santayana

I and my wife choose death to escape the shame of the deposition or surrender. Our desire is to be burned immediately on the places where I have provided most of my daily work during the twelve years spent in the service of my people.

–Excerpt from Adolf Hitler’s private will

FOREWORD

W hen I had received the new manuscript of M. Jean Sénat Fleury, I was far from expecting to be in a different universe than the one to which he has already accustomed us. Of course, it had already been a matter of trial in his books. However, I must admit that in this book, I really did not expect to be faced with the controversial character of Adolf Hitler. Whether he took his life or fled after the fall of the Third Reich, no matter, and we can always speculate on his fate; the fact remains that the world has not yet fully recovered from the Second World War and all the atrocities that were committed at that time. It is also really inconceivable that it was not quoted at trial earlier, as was his colleagues at the famous Nuremberg trial.

I was astonished and, at the same time, delighted to see that Hitler was finally to be judged for all the heinous crimes that were committed under his power. What an excellent idea had M. Fleury following the writing of his latest work. I sincerely wish to congratulate the author for the work done and for his contribution so that the collective memory does not forget but especially that it realizes and becomes aware.

Guy Jacques

September 10, 2018

COMMENT

T he book, " Adolf Hitler: Trial in Absentia in Nuremberg", that my good friend Jean Sénat Fleury is publishing, is a classic in law and international justice. The flagrant violation of human rights and the disregard for individual freedom were damaged between 1933 and 1945 with the madness of the German dictator Adolf Hitler who had claimed to be superior to other peoples on the principle of race. Although the real reasons for wars are only known by their authors, what can we learn from the Second World War? Long before, I must remember that the fallout of the First World War favored the polarization of geopolitics with the emergence of U.S. military supremacy in the West and the creation of the Soviet Union with the Bolshevik Revolution in the East. Here, following the arguments put forward, some may say that this war had enabled the United States to become the world’s first military power. The same is true of the Second World War, which, in term of benefits, allowed the United States to become the world’s leading economic power. Along the way, we can say that the issue of wars is an investment project that is at the defensive and oppressive level. That is to say, in making war, the nations defend themselves in relation to their future just as they oppress in the same order of ideas. Since none of us do have access to the Temple of Themis, it would be difficult to know the real reasons of the Second World War.

However, we have seen the systematic persecution of an ethnic group, in this case, the Jews. Now, with regard to the Nuremberg judgment, it was not realized with the intention of achieving social justice for the minorities persecuted by Hitler, but rather to close the chapter of the Second World War. The message through this suspicious trial was in the sense that the Führer’s mission was coming to an end. As the other would say, make me crazy or wise, how was a regime that had built on the principle of deprivation of psychological, ideological, and social enjoyment could be in the Nuremberg trial represented by only twenty-four accused? It must be understood that the act of war is the final action or the execution of the war project. The war project is multidimensional; it is a whole mechanism encompassing the contribution of several areas of expertise just as she must have financial contributions. As the author rightly pointed out, the Nuremberg trial was so biased that it was more of a political response than social justice.

In reading Mr. Fleury’s book, I noticed how much the author had analyzed the facts to plead the case. By inventing Hitler’s judgment in absentia before a criminal court in Nuremberg, he foiled the plan of those who had plotted behind the curtains and wanted Hitler to be a victim or winner of the Second World War. Indeed, if the investigation leading to the judgment of the twenty-four senior Nazi officers had not been accentuated on the need to proceed to judgment in absentia of Hitler since his legal death was not confirmed, there is, instead of advancing the idea that it was something wanted. As a result, the Nuremberg judges made Hitler the big winner of this war. And those who are in favor of conspiracy theories share with me the idea that it was very plausible that the Führer might be present in the room to sit at the place of one of the court’s attorneys.

But fortunately, the plotters could not mislead the author, who put Hitler in his place, deciding to try him for the crimes and atrocities of the Nazis during the Second World War. Since Adolf Hitler did not respond within the time allotted by the court, he was therefore considered to be absent and sentenced in absentia.

To all those who will have the opportunity to read this book, I hope they will find even symbolic justice in this trial against Adolf Hitler, a decision condemning the dictator that was omitted at the Nuremberg trial.

Jacques A. Démézier, Sociologist

PROLOGUE

S ince my book Toussaint Louverture: The Trial of the Slave Trafficking was published, I have continued with a series of great fictitious trials with the character of notorious criminals who escaped justice. There were several in my list: John Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson, Jesse James, Lee Harvey Oswald, Joseph Bonanno, Al Capone, Ted Bundy, John Dillinger, Jack the Ripper, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Osama Ben Laden, Benito Mussolini, Mobutu Sese Seko, Hirohito, Saloth Sar said Pol Pot, and Attila, king of the Huns, the said the scourge of God.

After reviewing the list, I stopped my choice on Adolf Hitler, the dictator who ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945 and unleashed the Second World War.

Judging the great criminals of history who have escaped justice, this is the purpose of mounting a series of fictitious trials in which the contradictory debates are opened before an invented tribunal and everything is played as if the hearing is real. I began this process by judging Napoleon Bonaparte and several other dignitaries of the monarchy and the French empire in the book entitled Toussaint Louverture: The Trial of the Slave Trafficking. I continued the series with the book Adolf Hitler: Trial in absentia in Nuremberg.

Written at a time when efforts are being made to bring to justice all those who have been implicated in one way or another in the genocide of the Jews during the Second World War, the book Adolf Hitler: The trial in Absentia in Nuremberg, is a timely opportunity to question the justice efforts to condemn former Nazis and to raise awareness among governments like those of Ukraine, Norway, and Sweden who have no rules to judge former war criminals and to pass legislation to allow the prosecution of those who collaborated with the Nazis in the extermination camps. These laws would also facilitate the judgment of those who participated indirectly in the killing of innocent people, offering new opportunities to try suspects despite their advanced age.

Thousands of genocide perpetrators have fallen through the cracks of justice an effect favored by the Cold War. A dozen former Nazi criminals still free have been identified in 2016 by the Simon-Wiesenthal center. This organization, which had specialized in the hunt for the latest Nazi criminals had been operating since 2002 in a Last Chance Operation with a view to having them condemned by the courts. The trial of Adolf Eichmann, which took place in 1961 in Israel, and Reinhold Hanning who took place in 2016 in Germany, were the last two ones that advanced somewhat the awareness of the importance of genocide and demonic actions of Nazis criminals.

Inventing Hitler’s trial is a way of honoring the memory of the millions of victims who died under the orders of the German dictator in the extermination camps (including 1 million at Auschwitz-Birkenau). At least 800,000 were killed following conditions of material and psychological misery, to which they had been subjected in particular ghettos, and finally, 1.3 million were murdered by the Einsatzgruppen and their accomplices, intervention groups that accompanied the German army in the occupied territories. Inventing Hitler’s trial is finally a way to honor the memory of the tens of millions of civilian and military victims who perished during the war.

The judgment in absentia of Adolf Hitler, considered as one of the greatest criminals in history, is a step to condemn war, and also a decision to correct a serious error committed by the Nuremberg tribunal, which was not to judge Hitler in absentia during the trial. This book is a book of information and training; a reference book that should be read as an educational tool on the history of the Second World War, while allowing a better understand of the atrocities of the Nazi regime in the years from 1933-1945. Through the play of fiction, I hide behind the judge who takes sat in Nuremberg to lead the debates on Adolf Hitler’s judgment in absentia and condemn the German dictator, one of the greatest political monsters the planet has ever known.

THE NUREMBERG TRIAL

IN CONTEXT

CHAPTER I

REFLECTION ON THE NUREMBERG TRIAL

W ith the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, we lived in the illusion of a world of peace where the thought of another world war seemed to want to fade from the collective memory for at least a hundred centuries. Yet, twenty years after the peace agreement signed in Paris, the world would witness the deadliest war in history with a count of more than sixty million deaths added to the hundreds of millions of homeless people and cities devastated on the European and Asian continents. Although it is not surprising that the signatory countries of the Versailles Treaty were part of the Second World War, it is surprising, however, that the victors of the Second World War would once again be playing with a trial, as if the twenty-four senior Nazi regime judges tried by the international military tribunal at Nuremberg were the only ones guilty of the crimes and atrocities of the Second World War.

The eagerness with which this trial took place is misleading; one may wonder why this judgment could be held without any consideration to judge the leader of the Nazi regime, in this case Adolf Hitler? It is also valid to denounce the quota of the accused (twenty-four), initially tried by the international military tribunal Nuremberg, and a hundred others judged by the Americans, still in Nuremberg and before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East united to try crimes committed on the Pacific front, a number that seems insignificant, when we know that Nazism (1933-1945) had several ramifications, be it at the political, economic or social level. All in all, the omission of the name of the Führer in the Nuremberg trial, without being convinced that he had committed suicide shows how the verdict was not intended to do justice to the millions of victims of Hitler’s tyranny and advocates the predominance of his race to the detriment of other races in the world. The start of this trial was solely in the Allied plan to have a legal document dedicating the victory of the winners over the losers and find a legal way to share the cake.

It is with a view to denouncing social injustice in the Nuremberg trial that this book describes why it was necessary at the time to judge Hitler in absentia at Nuremberg. Considering that during the trial the Führer might still be alive, and that there was no scientific proof of his suicide to attest to his legal death; not judging him in absentia seems like something wanted: a decision that has been taken from a political agreement among the powers that had their representatives in the composition of the international military tribunal at Nuremberg.

To judge Hitler in absentia before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal at the same time as the twenty-four other Nazi defendants, what would be the advantages of this trial?

The disappearance of Adolf Hitler on the world political scene, did not bury the ideology of the German dictator who still remains a myth to the eyes of hundreds of thousands of his followers so far operating in the world. For proof, more than 80 million copies of the book in which Hitler published his political message, "Mein Kampf" were sold on the market. No less than 70 million copies were sold after the end of the Nazi regime and Germany’s defeat in 1945.

The publisher has already foreseen since 2016 to publish a critical version of the book of Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf," accompanied by comments from researchers to put in perspective and demonstrate the arguments of this apology of violence and racism a commendable initiative, of course, but we can guess the purpose of this approach, to earn millions with the Hitler brand.

The publication of this central book in the history of the twentieth century will be accompanied by a critical apparatus, established by a scientific committee of historians, stressed the news release of Fayard Editions in 2016. The last French edition of "Mein Kampf dates back to 1934, before the Second World War. According to the estimates of the GfK Institute, nearly twenty-five thousand copies of this book were sold in 2015. The group Land Bavaria owned the rights of the book until December 2015. A critical edition of Mein Kampf is being published in Germany. It is the first edition in German since the end of the Second World War. The Institute of Contemporary History of Munich (IZT) was responsible for this critical edition. The original Mein Kampf" was published in 1925 in Germany. A completed version was published in 1926. The book remains for the time being, banned for marketing in Germany and the Netherlands.

Judging Hitler in absentia in Nuremberg would have given the legal right to not only seize all the dictator’s assets but also prevent commercial groups from collecting millions through Hitler’s work, especially the book "Mein Kampf", which has returned since 2015 to the public domain.

It is an insult to the victims of the Second World War that more than 60 million people died, especially for the Jews who suffered Hitler’s humiliation and terror, to witness the spread of the ideology of the Nazi dictator as in the years 1933-1945, conveyed through the book "Mein Kampf". Judging Hitler in absentia in Nuremberg would have opened a public debate on senior officials and businessmen of the occupied territories who had participated and cooperated with the Nazis. In addition, a verdict recognizing Hitler’s guilt would have allowed the Allies to having a legal document to confiscate the assets of officials and corporations who had collaborated with the Nazis and to use the seized property to repay the humanity of the losses of the war. And most importantly, judging Hitler in absentia in Nuremberg would have motivated much more research to apprehend a higher number of Nazi criminals who fled Germany after the war and maybe would prevent Hitler from being seen as a hero by racist supporters, followers of the Nazi ideology, who swarm today in the world: fanatics of the far right who represent a real danger for minorities, mainly blacks and Jews. Judging Hitler would avoid all the mysteries on Hitler’s death by forcing Stalin to share the information kept secret by the Soviet Intelligence.

Finally, Hitler put on trial in Nuremberg would offer an extraordinary opportunity for the Allied to bury the Nazis in the wake of the Second World War. In the process of denazification, this would be a final act to show the world the true face of Adolf Hitler, and this trial would allow the prosecution to publicly expose the documentation on the names of some secret organizations that used the German dictator as a puppet to carry the mission to eliminate the Jews during the Second World War.

This book aims to correct the deficiencies committed in Nuremberg where the name of Hitler does not appear in the list of the accused. Thus, in carrying out Hitler’s fictitious judgment in absentia, the aim is to show how the initial Nuremberg judgment prevented humanity from knowing the whole truth about the material and intellectual authors of the Second World War, a plot fomented by the economic, political, religious, and financial powers hidden behind Hitler, who used his charisma, and his demonic nature, to start the war and lead humanity to disaster. Thus, since the immediate fallout of the Nuremberg trial was to impose the victors’law on the vanquished, and not to repair the social injustices and the damage done to humanity by the Nazi madness, we open the first chapter of the book on a contextualization of this trial by conveying the benefits of a trial in absentia of Adolf Hitler, which would have seized the assets of the dictator and also pursued his accomplices. To do this, we will proceed to the historicity of the Nazi regime by developing the march into the political power of Hitler to lead to its advance to the war.

CHAPTER II

THE ROAD TO POWER

I n the summer of 1931, a young German Jewish lawyer named Hans Litten forced Hitler to testify at the Berlin court. In cross-examination, Hitler was forced for three hours, in front of a public hearing, to defend his beliefs, his ambitions, his methods, and the very essence of Nazism. Litten declared at the time that Hitler was a monster and that if he came to power in Germany, he would impose a bloody ferocious dictatorship, and the whole world would suffer from his actions. But Litten’s warnings had not been taken seriously. Once the Nazis came to power, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp, where he finally committed suicide. Beyond Litten’s suicide, the other important fact to remember is his prediction made on Hitler. As he had predicted during the hearing in Berlin, with Hitler as Chancellor in Germany, a monster was created.

On January 30, 1933, in Berlin, German ideologist and statesman Adolf Hitler took power. Founder and central figure of Nazism, Hitler established an imperialist and racist totalitarian dictatorship known as the Third Reich. In the 1920s, in a climate of political violence, Hitler became the head of the National Socialist Party of German Workers (NSDAP, the Nazi Party), and tried in 1923 a failed coup. Placed in prison, he wrote in his cell the book Mein Kampf, in which he exposed his racist and ultranationalist conceptions.

With Hitler out of prison, and after the elections of July 31, 1932, in the Reichstag, which resulted in a considerable increase in the power of the Nazi Party, von Papen offered the post of vice-chancellor to Hitler, who refused, and demanded the post of chancellor. After Hitler’s refusal on November 16, Von Papen resigned and was replaced by general Von Schleicher, but he continued his efforts to bring Hitler to power. On January 4, 1932, von Papen had a meeting with Hitler at the home of a Cologne banker von Schröder and Göring attended, with a few other leaders, this meeting on January 22 at Von Ribbentrop’s house. On January 9, 1932, Von Papen also met with president von Hindenburg and, from January 22, officially he discussed with him the formation of a cabinet with Hitler as chancellor. In November 1932, a number of industrial and financial figures signed and petitioned president von Hindenburg to entrust Hitler with the post of chancellor. Schacht actively contributed to the signatures at the bottom of this petition. On January 30, 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor of the Reich by president von Hindenburg. Under his rule, there was a fierce and brutal dictatorship, millions of people were taken prisoner and sent to extermination camps for religious, political, and ethnic differences (including socialists, communists, Blacks, Jews, homosexuals, handicapped people, Jehovah Witnesses, and trade unionists).

In August 1934, Hitler was elected the head of state. Then he bore the double title of führer and chancellor of the Reich. Very quickly, under his power, Germany became a hegemonic power dominated by a revanchist and warlike anti-Semitic Pan-Germanist policy. Hitler adopted anti-Jewish legislation in 1935, and the Nazis took control of German society (workers, youth, media and cinema, industry, science, etc.). Soon, the regime would lead Germany to trigger World War II.

CHAPTER III

THE ROAD TO WAR

O n the political front Hitler since 1935 had organized Germany economy for a relatively high production of ready armament. His goal was to produce armaments quickly by increasing Germany’s armament-producing plan. On early April 1933, he created the Reich Defense Council to work on a new and secret rearmament program. On July 20, 1933, the chancellor promulgated a new Army Law, abolishing the jurisdiction of the civil courts over the military while declaring that, the Army had to guarantee the protection of the nation against the world beyond ours frontiers. He repeated that, the task of the S.A. is to secure the victory of the National Socialist Revolution and the existence of the National Socialist State."

In a speech on September 23, 1934, at Nuremberg, he renewed almost the same message given by Roehn, the chief of the S.A., on November 5, 1933, in front of fifteen thousand officers in the Sportpalast in Berlin:

On this day we should particularly remember the part played by our army, for we all know that if, in the days of our revolution, the army had not stood on our side, then we should not be standing here today. We can ensure the army that we shall never forget this, that we see in them the bearers of the tradition of our glorious old army, and that with all our heart, and all our powers, we will support the spirit of this army.

In 1935, Hitler reintroduced conscription and approved the first of several large military parades. The following year he unveiled his Four-Year Plan: ostensibly an economic program to achieve German self-sufficient; in reality this was a program to prepare Germany’s military for war. By the beginning of 1939, Germany’s armed forces counted more than 90,000 soldiers, 8,000 aircraft, and 95 warships.

Who fights with poison, Hitler threatened his enemies during a speech at the opera house in Berlin on August 1939. Will be fought with poison. Who disregards the rules of human warfare can only expect us to take the same steps. I will carry on this fight, no matter against whom, until the safety of the Reich and its rights are secured! … From this moment, my whole life shall belong more than ever to my people. I now want to be nothing but the first soldier of the German Reich. Therefore, I have once again put on that uniform which was always no sacred to and dear to me. I shall not take it off until after the victory or I shall not live to see the end!

Germany wanted more land and invaded Poland. Due to the alliance between Great Britain and Poland, the United Kingdom declared war on Germany. The alliance between Australia and Britain meant that she was also at war. The Second World War had started.

The ambition to dominate Europe first and then the rest of the world led Hitler to occupy most Europe countries (Czechoslovakia, Poland, Belgium, Greece, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Denmark, France, Norway, Russia etc.). After the occupation of Austria in March 1938, following the occupation of Czechoslovakia on March 12, 1939, Hitler ordered the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. Then successively, he invaded Denmark and Norway (April 9, 1940), Luxembourg, Holland, and Belgium (May 10, 1940), France (May-June 1940), Yugoslavia (April 1941), Greece (April-May 1941), and Russia (June 1941).

CHAPTER IV

THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CONTEXT OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

T he First World War ended with the surrender of Germany, which accepted the conditions set out in the Treaty of Versailles of 1919. The United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Japan, the United States divided the former colonies Germany and the victorious countries, particularly France, obtained the right to high reparations allowances. France, moreover, obtained the reintegration of Alsace and the Moselle, annexed by Bismarck after the war of 1870.

Russia, after the Bolshevik Revolution and the Counter-Revolution, became the Soviet Union, while new States (Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Baltic States) were created in Central Europe, in the name of the principle nationalities, in particular because of the dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The borders of the USSR are also displaced for the benefit of Poland. In Germany, the Treaty of Versailles was denounced, imposing heavy war indemnities and the loss of German lands such as Upper Silesia.

In Italy resentment was as strong as in Germany. Italy did not obtain the allocation of the provinces of Istria, Dalmatia and Trentino which the country wished. During the 1920s and 1930s, France and the United Kingdom did not agree on the compensation payable by Germany, and the reconstruction or dismantling of German industrial structures. This conflict led to the occupation of the industrial region of the Ruhr, rich in coal, iron and metallurgical industry, by Belgian and French troops from 1923 to 1925. This occupation quickly led to a crisis in the German economy, a significant devaluation. Mark and a reinforcement of the policies of the extreme right nationalist and the extreme left communist. The Dawes Plan of 1924 put an end to this occupation. Five years later (1929) the world entered the most serious economic crisis in history.

The economic crisis of 1929 affected all the economies of the world, and had serious consequences for the fragile economies of the European countries just out of the war, especially Germany, causing in this country heavily hit by the aftermath of the World War I, unemployment and recession. The repatriation of large American investments in Germany plunged the German economy into a serious crisis. In Germany and Italy, economic crises made it easier for the National Socialists to take power. In the Third Reich, the Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler, came to power in 1933. Hitler increased his popularity by denouncing the Treaty of Versailles, which is the general demand of all Germans, even the opponents of National Socialism, the Nazi party. Hitler and his fanatical partisans who wanted to conquer lands joined forces with other fascist powers (Italy, Japan, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania).

Led by Benito Mussolini, Italy withdrew from the League of Nations and moved closer to Nazi Germany. Italy soon became a dictatorship where all opponents were exiled or murdered. In 1939, Italy invaded Albania, of which she made an Italian protectorate. In Germany, Adolf Hitler took the power on January 30, 1933. Very quickly, he restored in Germany the generalized military service, prohibited by the treaty of Versailles, remilitarized the Rhineland in 1936 and implemented an aggressive foreign policy. This policy aims to bring together the German-speaking populations of Central Europe within the same state.

Hitler realized his plans to conquer Europe by annexing Austria in March 1938: it is the Anschluss. After a provocation operation known as the Gleiwitz incident, German troops invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. On September 3, 1939, France and the United Kingdom declared war on Germany under a treaty of February 1921, which bound them to Poland. On September 17, 1939, in application of the secret clauses of the German-Soviet Pact, the Soviet Union in turn invaded Poland from the east. Thus, the Second World War broke out.

Europe occupied by the Nazis is delivered to terror and looting. Between 1938 and 1941, after the occupation of territories of the main countries of the European continent, the only enemy of Nazi Germany remained the United Kingdom, supported by the Commonwealth. Unable to bend the English and after the debacle in Moscow, where the German army lost 700,000 men (killed, wounded, or prisoners), or a quarter of the troops dispatched to Russia, Hitler began to see the decline of his regime. The declaration of war with the United States on December 11, 1941, shortly after Japan’s Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, further complicated the situation. On the night of June 5 to 6, 1944, more than 150,000 Allied soldiers, under the command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, landed in Normandy. Called code named Overlord (suzerain in French), this naval aviation operation remains the most gigantic in history.

In Europe, the armed conflict ends on May 8, 1945 with the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich. As far as the Asian continent and the world are concerned, the Second World War ended on September 2, 1945, with the unconditional surrender of Japan’s empire, the latter being the last Axis nation to be defeated.

CHAPTER V

THE DECLINE

O n February 18, 1943, German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels at the Berlin Sportpalast delivered a speech to a large but carefully selected audience. He called for a total war at the time when it was clear that the Second World War was turning against Nazi Germany and its Axis allies. The speech was the first public admission by the Nazi leadership that Germany faced serious dangers. Goebbels exhorted the German people to continue the war even though it would be long and difficult.

Germany, in any case, has no intention of bowing to this Jewish threat, but rather one of confronting it in due time, if need be in terms of complete and most radical suppression of Judaism.

While Goebbels referred to Soviet mobilization nationwide as devilish, he explained that we cannot overcome the Bolshevist danger unless we use equivalent, though not identical, methods [in a] total war. He attempted to counter reports in the Allied press that German civilians had lost faith in victory by asking the audience a number of questions at the end, such as:

Do you believe with the Führer and us in the final victory of the German people? Are you and the German people willing to work, if the Führer orders, 10, 12, and if necessary 14 hours a day and to give everything for victory? I ask you: Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even yet imagine.

He explained then the threat posed by International Jewry:

The goal of Bolshevism is Jewish world revolution. They want to bring chaos to the Reich and Europe, using the resulting hopelessness and desperation to establish their international, Bolshevist-concealed capitalist tyranny… Germany intends to take the most radical measures, if necessary, in good time.

In the spring of 1945, feeling the approach of defeat, Hitler not only planned his suicide but also ordered the destruction of his country, saying that the Allied troops, after invading Germany, would leave behind only burn earth. In a directive dated March 20, 1945, addressed to all commanders of the Wehrmacht and the NSDAP’s senior administration, Hitler wrote, All the military, transport, information, industrial, and supplies as well as material goods within the territory of the Reich, which the enemy could use in any way to fight immediately or in the near future, must be destroyed.

Albert Speer convinced Hitler not to implement this plan. On March 30, Hitler, already entrenched in his bunker, reluctantly paralyzed the industry instead of resorting to burnt land tactics. The last days of the German dictator took place in Berlin, at the Führerbunker, where he had taken up his quarters on January 16, 1945. There, he watched helplessly as the Soviet forces seized the capital. On April 30, 1945, he shot himself in the right temple while his wife, Eva Braun was poisoned with cyanide.

CHAPTER VI

REPORT ON THE SECOND WORLD WAR

THE CONSEQUENCES

A bout 45 million civilians died, including 13 to 20 million war-related illnesses or famine. Military casualties are estimated at between 22 and 25 million, including 5 million prisoners of war who died in captivity. In total 50 million to 60 million people perished in the war.

Total

1. Human balance

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2. Extermination Camps

• Nazi extermination camps: According to the Polish National Memory Institute 2, 830,000 Jews were killed in the Nazi camps:

• The total number of victims of the Holocaust is between 11 and 17 million.

• English sources estimate that 10 to 11 million Soviet civilians were victims of Nazi ethnic cleansing and war. A report of the Russian Academy of Sciences published in 1995 estimates that 13.7 million civilians were killed during the German occupation.

3. Prisoners of War

• Russians: A total of 3.1 million soldiers died in German prison camps during the war, including 2.6 to 3 million Soviet prisoners of war. This represents about 55 percent of all Soviet soldiers captured by the German army.

• Polish: Between 1.8 and 1.9 million Polish civilians died during the German occupation.

• Serbs: Yad Vashem’s memorial estimates 500,000 killed, 250,000 expelled, and 200,000 forcibly converted to Catholicism.

• According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Croatian authorities killed between 320,000 and 340,000 Serbs living in Croatia and Bosnia during the war. Of this number, between 45,000 and 52,000 were murdered at the Jasenovac extermination camp.

• Roma: Estimates of the number of Roma victims range from 130,000 to 500,000.

• Disabled: Between 200,000 and 250,000 people with physical and mental disabilities were killed under the AktionT4 program. A 2003 report of the German Federal Archives advances the total number of 200,000.

• Homosexuals: Between 10,000 and 15,000 homosexuals perished in Nazi concentration camps.

• Between 1,000 and 2,000 Catholic clerics, about 1,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses and an unknown number of Freemasons were killed.

• The Japanese massacred up to 30 million Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians, and Burmese.

• In 1945, many areas were destroyed in Europe and several million people died or were injured. The fighting of the Second World War spared only the neutral countries. The human toll is dramatic: between 50 and 60 million dead, several million wounded, and 30 million Europeans displaced because of border changes, especially in Eastern Europe. This conflict was the most costly in human lives in the history of mankind. About 45 million civilians died in the fighting and bombing, and the number of civilian casualties is greater than that of the military victims.

Entire peoples were almost decimated (there were 7 million Jews in Europe before the war and only 1 million after) and people were destroyed. Poland had lost about 15 percent of its population.

About 11 million people were reportedly executed directly on the orders of Adolf Hitler.

4. Military Losses

In total, an estimated 17,877,000 soldiers died on European battlefields, including 10,774,000 on the Allied side and 7,103,000 on the Axis side.

The Red Army killed 53 percent of the total known military losses in Europe, those of the Wehrmacht 31 percent and the United Kingdom 1,8 percent, those of France 1,4 percent and those of the North America 1.3 percent.

The Soviet Union’s military losses account for 88 percent of Allied losses in Europe (the United Kingdom 3 percent, France 2.3 percent and United States 2.2 percent). The total military losses alone of Germany and the Soviet Union together account for 84 percent of all military casualties suffered in Europe. The military losses of the German-Russian conflict alone are 13,876,400 or 78 percent of the total military casualties suffered in Europe.

5. Balance Sheet

The Nazi and Allied bombings caused extensive material damage in the cities, Berlin and Warsaw were almost completely destroyed. The bombardment of Dresden on February 13, 1945 caused about 135,000 deaths. Several districts of London and Rotterdam were to be rebuilt. Millions of civilians were out of housing and there were millions of homeless people. Other martyrdom cities, include Hamburg, Stalingrad, Leningrad, Sevastopol, Kiev, Kharkov, and Budapest.

For France, the cost of reconstruction amounted to 4,900,000, francs. Three hundred thousand residential buildings were completely destroyed in France. The cities of Brest, Caen, Le Havre, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire, Cherbourg, Evreux, Saint-Malo, and Rouen were notably destroyed in whole or in part.

Transport and production infrastructure was also damaged; the decommissioning of thousands of roads, bridges, railways, and harbors was causing the isolation of many villages.

Regarding Europe, the looting of resources organized by the Nazis in the occupied countries, combined with the disorganization of the means of production, led to serious shortages; rationing was maintained after the German capitulation of May 8, 1945 (in France, 200 g of bread per day and less than 200 g of meat per week). The post-war period was marked by the Dutch famine of 1944. The harsh winter of 1946-1947 accentuated the difficulties of supply and made everyday life in North-west Europe even more difficult. The lack of coal was hard to feel because it represented the main means for heating.

6. Psychological Report

All the families of the victims are still shocked by this very deadly war. In addition, people who have survived the concentration camps have great difficulty living as before. The memories that haunt them day and night were traumatic.

7. Economic Situation

In 1947, production levels remained lower than pre-war levels: agricultural production reached 83 percent of that of 1938, industrial production 88 percent and exports 59 percent. This situation was explained by the lack of manpower, by the low productivity of work because of under nutrition, and by the looting, bombing, and sabotage that affected the production apparatus. In general, the economies of the countries of Eastern Europe were more affected than those of the Western countries, because the Nazi occupation there was harder and the tactic of scorched earth was applied in the USSR. After 1945, governments and contractors would convert war plants back to the needs of consumption and equipment. In France, the lack of coal paralyzed the iron and steel industry. In Germany, the lack of raw materials, labor, and national administration and the limit of transport caused a dramatic situation.

Overcrowding and the black market threatened the country’s balance.

To finance the war effort, European governments had become indebted. The United States had lent $ 4.33 billion to Britain in 1945 while Canada had allocated US $ 1.19 billion in 1946, with an annual interest rate of 2 percent. Germany had to pay $20 billion to the USSR as compensation.

Trade was restricted because of bombing and the destruction of merchant shipping. The trade balance of many European countries was deficient, and unemployment and rationing drove workers to strike. A difficult social context took hold, favorable to the agitation and progress of communism. Because of the shortages affecting Europe, it depended on imports, particularly from the United States.

Everywhere, inflation was weakening European currencies. In France, the Vichy regime had put in place an enormous money supply with no counterpart in production. This dragged the country into an endless spiral of inflation. The pound lost its importance against the U.S. dollar. In Germany, the American blonde cigarette was a monetary standard.

The Potsdam Conference (July-August 1945) regulated the separation of Germany into four distinct areas under the surveillance of the occupying powers: the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. The German territory was greatly amputated; it decreased by 24 percent compared to 1937. It covered only 357 000 km².

Germans often refer to the year 1945 as Stunde Null (the zero hour) to describe the collapse of their country.

There are several major consequences of the Second World War. Europe was in ruins as a result of the war. The end of the war marked the beginning of the Cold war between the USA and the Soviet Union. The borders were redrawn for several countries. Germany was forced to hand over a lot of eastern territories to Poland and the USSR, as well as being divided into western and eastern occupation zones, controlled by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. Romania lost all of its north-eastern lands (current day Republic of Moldova), as they were incorporated into the Soviet Union. Finland ceded parts of Finnish Karelia, part of Salla, and Islands in the Gulf of Finland to the USSR. All three Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) became members of the USSR. Japan lost the Sakhalin and Kuril islands which were annexed by the Soviet Union.

The division of Europe into Western and Eastern spheres of influence, by drawing maps with iron border became a sad reality. This expanded the USSR by installing pro-soviet governments in Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Albania, Yugoslavia, and Romania. Korea, which had been under Japanese rule, was divided and occupied by the US in the south and the USSR in the north, between 1945-1948. As a result, separate republics emerged in 1948. This led to the Korean war. The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 started the escalation of the Arab-Israeli conflict. With Europe’s infrastructure, military, and economy destroyed, many Europeans colonies saw an opportunity to gain their independence such as the separation of India and Pakistan from Britain.

As a consequence of the war, the United Nation was created by the Allies in October 1945, with the USA, Soviet Union, China, Great Britain, and France being permanent members for its security Council. Rapidly, the world would enter at the beginning of the Cold war, between the United States-led Nato Alliance, and the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The Cold war had introduced an unprecedented escalation of the arms race between the two super powers, the United States and the Soviet Union.

Having mobilized more than 100 million fighters from 61 nations and killed an estimated 60 million people, the Second World War remains the deadliest armed conflict humanity has ever seen. It dedicated Allied victory to Germany and the Axis powers: Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. In addition, it led to the signing of the London agreement establishing the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal with the task of trying the Nazis.

CHAPTER VII

A HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST

O n February 27, 1933, the Reichstag (German parliament) burned down. Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch anarchist, was accused by the Nazis of executing a communist plot to set fire. The burning of the Reichstag gave the Nazis a pretext to arrest communist leaders and communist Reichstag deputies.

On February 28, president von Hindenburg issued a decree, for the protection of the People and the State, suspending the constitutional guarantees of personal liberty, the right of free expression of opinion -including freedom of the press- and the rights of assembly and association. The privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communication was no longer guaranteed, and warrants for house searches, and orders for confiscations of, as well as, restrictions on property