As the silver screen flickers to life with “Nuremberg,” the echoes of that infamous tribunal thunder back into our consciousness, a stark reminder of the legal abyss that swallowed justice whole. This was no solemn American courtroom upholding sacred constitutional principles. No, this was the raw might of the victorious Allies, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the iron-fisted Soviet Union, forging a trial from the ashes of World War II. Yet even among these conquerors, discord raged; they could never unite on how to brand and punish these so-called war crimes. Hear me now: many of these Nazis plunged into unspeakable horrors, their hands drenched in blood, and they reaped the grim harvest they sowed, including the noose’s fatal embrace. My quarrel is not with their guilt, but with the sham of “justice” that condemned them. Crimes were conjured from thin air, laws retroactively birthed, ex post facto abominations utterly forbidden by the American Constitution. The def...