Interesting. A similar process happened much more quickly in Japan: dozens of Class A war criminals were arrested pending trial in 1945, some were tried and convicted in 1948, but that same year those who'd never been brought to trial were released, and by 1960 a former Class A war criminal was railroading ratification of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, with automatic renewal, through the Diet, because he was Prime Minister. Even those who were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment were mostly released early.
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Date: 2009-07-09 11:19 pm (UTC)