How Nazi Billionaires Escaped Justice at Nuremberg

Although they shared responsibility for the crimes committed by the Third Reich, many German capitalists got off easy because Washington saw them as potential allies in the Cold War with the USSR.

In August 1945, the Allied powers of France, Great Britain, the United States, and the USSR created the world’s first International Military Tribunal, with the goal of bringing those responsible for the Third Reich’s wartime atrocities to justice. While important political figures like Hermann Göring, Karl Dönitz, and Rudolf Hess were successfully impri…