Atrocity propaganda
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Madden Commission in the 50s. That's why I mentioned him.
I didn't know about that, but it's interesting that it turned out that they did it when the Cold War started. Of course, you don't exactly have to be a genius to figure that out.
The Nuremburg Judges were going to prosecute Wehrmacht officers for Katyn (at the insistence of the Soviets) until the OSS and MI6 unofficially informed the Allied judges that the identity of the Katyn perpetrators was an open secret and had been for years. The Nuremburg trials, as a whole, were decried as show trials at the time by respectable legal experts all over the world, but that has been memory holed.
Who are the legal experts you're talking about. I know H.L.A. Hart thought prosecution was appropriate.
Here is a fairly neutral write-up. Interestingly (I'm having trouble finding sources atm), much of the contemporary criticisms around Nuremburg came from folk involved in setting up the Tokyo Tribunal. They felt that they needed to do a better job establishing proper legal principles than what came out of Nuremburg.