Did the Americans Really Destroy Testicles During the Nuremberg Trials?
There's this meme floating around Holocaust Denier Circles lately, that the Americans tortured German defendants at Nuremberg, and that an investigation found "Out of 139 German witnesses who testified that the Holocaust had occurred, the British Medical Officer recorded that 137 had 'damage to their testicles that is beyond repair.'"
![Documented Torture of German POWs Before the Nuremberg Trials Baron Paget of Northampton wrote in his book titled "Manstein: His Campaign and His Trial (published by Collins in 1951) on page 109: [The US Simpson Inquiry Commission] reported among other things that of the 139 cases they had investigated, 137 had had their testicles permanently destroyed by kicks received from the War Crimes investigating Team. Pennsylvania judge Edward L. Van Roden member of the commission investigating the accusations by Colonel Everett who reported that Germans did not receive fair trial, wrote in his book titled "American Atrocities in Germany' Our investigators would put a black hood over the accused's head and then punch him in the face with brass knuckles, kick him, and beat him with rubber hose. Many of the German defendants had teeth knocked out. Some had their jaws broken. All but two of the Germans, in the 139 cases we investigated, had been kicked in the testicles beyond repair. Out of 139 German witnesses who testified that the Holocaust had occurred, the British Medical Officer recorded that 137 had "damage to their testicles that is beyond repair." A number of Germans had died under interrogation by the Allies. There was also the threat of sending peoples' families to Soviet Gulags.](https://imgb.ifunny.co/images/821c468ddee79816880290940e01b82b9712ff612192087299504370fd116576_1.jpg)
If this were true, and that's a big "if," it would probably invalidate at least the various testimonies given at Nuremberg. But is it true? Let's find out.
So, if I google this quote, the first thing that comes up is the following Wikipedia Page:
This is obviously not one of the Nuremberg Trials: it doesn't even pertain to the Holocaust. Instead, it is a trial of Waffen-SS men for the massacre of Belgian and U.S. POW in the Battle of the Bulge. It wasn't even held in Nuremberg; it was held in Dachau.
The same Wikipedia article also links to a transcript of a hearing regarding the article. In the hearing, the judge who allegedly wrote this article - a certain Judge Van Roden - denied having written the article, testifying under oath that
"I want this to be made very definitely of record. I did not write that article... I am not the author of that article... I did not write that article in the Progressive."(https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=1681837#p1681837)
Another report on the matter (https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/llmlp/Malmedy_report/Malmedy_report.pdf) found there to be no evidence of abuse used for the purposes of coercion. The only legitimate claims of abuse made pertained to guards pushing and shoving the defendants when moving them into/out of their cells.
Van Roden also testified under oath that the statement
"There was no general or systematic use of improper methods to secure prosecution evidence for the use at the trials"reflected his position, as stated therein.
In conclusion, this is literally Holocaust Deniers lying. There is no other term for this. Even if we give them the benefit of the doubt, they are still using an incorrect article, calling it a "report." and applying it to a totally unrelated event. That is lying, and there is no other way to spin this to even make them look stupid rather than intellectually dishonest.
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