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View of the defendants in the dock
at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals in
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. Created: 31 October 1945
Laura Knight's 'The Nuremberg Trial'. She was the first female artist to become a dame in 1929 and was the
official artist for the Nuremberg Trials
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“There is another important weapon
the totalitarians use in their campaign to frighten the world into
submission. This is the weapon of psychological shock. Hitler kept his
enemies in a state of constant confusion and diplomatic upheaval. They
never knew what this unpredictable madman was going to do next. Hitler
was never logical, because he knew that that was what he was expected
to be. Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannot—it confuses
those who think straight. The Big Lie and monotonously repeated
nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and
reason. While the enemy is still searching for a reasonable
counter-argument to the first lie, the totalitarians can assault him
with another.” Dr Joost Meerloo, MD, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing.
The pretended comedy of errors does not in any way remove the blame
from the instigators, assistants, and executors of genocide.