Quotes from Telford Taylor

The mere punishment of the defendants, or even thousands of others equally guilty, can never redress the terrible injuries which the Nazis visited on these unfortunate peoples. For them it is far more important that these incredible events be established by clear and public proof, so that no one can ever doubt that they were fact and not fable.

There soon were storm signals. Nikitchenko and Trainin, in line with the Soviet conception of law as the servant of the political leadership, had a very limited idea of the trial's purpose. In the Russians' view, the Nazi organizations had already been condemned as criminal by the Big Three at Yalta, and it was "unthinkable" that the international tribunal—an organ of much less authority—could come to any other conclusion.