Why hasn't there been a war tribunal to convict Nazis of their crimes against Soviet POWs?

Question

I read that in the fall and autumn of 1941, over a million Soviet solders were captured and taken into Nazi custody. The soldiers were stripped of their supplies, forced marched guarded and transported through open rail cars to occupied parts of Soviet Union, Poland and Germany. In one death march comparable to the Pacific Theatre's Bataan Death March, 400,000 Soviet POWs lost their lives.

The living conditions of the Soviet POW camps were awful from many accounts. They lived in open areas surrounded by barbed wires with no shelter and extremely little food supplies. The Soviets turned to cannablism in the absence of food and the Nazis justified this as part of their extermination plan. Russians were viewed as subhumans and food provisions had to be saved for the Nazi soldiers. The Gestapo police did their best to identify Communist Party leaders, Jews, scientists and other members of the intelligentsia for mass execution and deportation to either labor or death camps. By the end of the war, 3.3 million Soviet soldiers died in captivity.

The Nazis were known to conduct a series of experiments on the Soviet POWs that included forced starvation, organ experiments and gas chamber experiments. What interests me is why no one has ever asked for an international tribunal to convict all those involved.

Answer 1

"Why hasn't there been a war tribunal to convict Nazis of their crimes against Soviet POWs?"



- the Nuremberg Trials had judges from Britain, France, the USA and Russia;

- the charges the defendants faced were crimes against humanity [all humanity, not just Russia or American or French or Polish or Belgian etal], and yes those crimes that happened on Russian soil

- and all went merrily along doing just that until The Cold War and the Russians started turning countries the should have been liberating into mere Communist puppet states and Stalin's planted spies were discovered around the world.



Do note when The Nuremberg Trails were raised with Stalin during one of the Allied Conferences he objected with the counter proposal that all Nazi Party and SS members should be summarily executed... and during the war and after were; even many western Allies just shot captured SS and Nazi's outright, the Russians just as standard practice for the most part. Only one in four Germans captured by Russians ever saw home again.

Answer 2

Let me put it too you, the Allied Powers were not particularly concerned what happened to them because overall, the Russians had their revenge in the end.

Of the hundreds of thousands of German prisoners taken only about 6000 returned alive back home to a country almost totally destroyed. Furtermore, the Russian army at the closing stages of the war had plenty of relief for their input to rape no less than 1.5 million women and children (as in girl children) across the East to send the message home. The duration of this rape campaign endorsed by Stalin lasted right into 1947. The Allied Powers were well aware of what was going on but were in no position to do anything about it. Furthermore, the Allies had little interest in the Eastern sector because if any of this had been handed over the bottom line would be that the West can pay for the rehab for all those that had suffered under the hands of the Russians. As you can see, cost factors appear to be more important when you consider that the world's economy had some rebuilding to do.

Answer 3

Good question, but the Soviets overran East Germany at the end of the war, and held on to it. Dozens of German divisions surrendered. They were taken to Russia for the prison camps. If I know anything about the Soviets, the officers were executed and the enlisted men were worked to death. But it was all in secret. It would also be in keeping with Soviet policy to execute suspect Germans behind closed doors. Since the Soviets kept all the records, who knows how accurate they are?

The Nazis were caught with their pants down. The Soviets were sneakier.

Answer 4

some were



and a lot more were captured by the USSR who didnt bother with trials (cant blame them)

(Churchill didnt want trails either at first, but the US pushed for them

Thing is the US prosecutor almost f//ked up the trial of Goering - it took UK prosecutor hartley shawcross to get his trial out of the sh//t)



(Funny thing armouror

a lot of the crimes those at nuremberg were accused of were invented after the war to cover what happened during the war

and one fundamental part of "justice" is you cannot make laws retroactive

that is - you cant accuse somebody later of a crime when it wasnt a crime when they did it

(I am not saying what they did wasnt horrific, just that some of it wasnt illegal)



The US also used a lot of the research the nazis did on russian prisoners in their space program AND used their top rocket scientists



I also think the russians (stalin) didnt give a f//k about the "truth" coming out or not

Why should they? - Stalin dont give a f//k about international opinion, and there was nothing anybody could have about it in any case

In fact it could have been a political bonus for him if they did know, cos the mesage would have been

"dont f//k with me or you wiil get the same"

Answer 5

the Nuremberg trials were Not Justice for the Dead only about 13 were sentenced to death and about 20 million civilians Died at the Hand of the Nazis and the poles French and British Held their own But teh USA helped 10,000 top Nazis to escape during operation Paperclip apparently the USA preferred Nazis to Communists



the same Reason Eisenhower was never put on Trial For Murdering 1.7 million German disarmed POW's



http://www.whale.to/b/bacque1.html



the USSR never wanted the Truth to come out of their actions from Prussia and the Rape of every female from new Born Babies to old women to Austria for 2 years



the USA and the USSR wanted the Truth to go away But I found it and tell it warts and all and i cop the abuse



the Russians did Not need a Tribunal they captured Millions of German Soldiers and only 5,000 made it back home after the war

Answer 6

There were - many of the German officials tried at Nuremberg were charged with war crimes against Soviet POWs (among many, many other crimes). Of course, many German officials and officers died during or shortly after the war or were captured by the Soviets (who had their own methods of dealing with them).

Answer 7

they are all dead.. also after the war over 5 million germans died in soviet pow camps

Answer 8

There has been. More than one, in fact.