The November issue of the Smithsonian Magazine has an article on Robert H. Jackson , who was a Supreme Court justice and chief prosecutor for the United States at the Nuremburg trials in 1945-1946. What struck me was what Jackson said in his final report to President Harry S. Truman after the verdict.

Jackson shared his thoughts on what had doomed the Third Reich, something that especially hits a nerve in view of the policies the current administration is pursuing.

“It was really the recoil of the Nazi blows at liberty that destroyed the Nazi regime,” Jackson wrote. “They struck down freedom of speech and press and other freedoms which pass as ordinary civil rights with us, so thoroughly that not even its highest officers dared to warn the people or the Fuehrer that they were taking th

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