My parents always supported McCarthy. However, an article criticizing Coulter's book mentions McCarthy represented SS soldiers in the investigation of the WWII Malmedy Massacre. The link to this article is here.
STATEMENT OF SGT. BARRY F. RHODEN (The McCarthy Transcript Liberals Do Not Want You To Read)
When the sealed McCarthy transcripts were released last May, the media made no mention that 16 Korean War vets testified. The press was too busy whining about the injustice of McCarthy calling Aaron Copland to testified (who rarely turned down an offer to join any communist front and who lied about his red affiliations when applying for a passport).
While Copland was touring the world with Soviet groups, Sgt. Rhodan was recovering from a gunshot wound to the back inflicted when communists executed the rest of his unit after it had been captured. Sgt Rhodan had been tortured and interrogated before being shot. When he returned to the USA, he received communist propaganda in the mail. McCarthy wanted to know who in the USA was receiving information on our vets from the North Koreans.
Defending the SS is not something I would want to do. But I will point out that John Adams (future second president of the US) defended the British Redcoats who were invovled in the Boston Massacre in 1770. He won the case.
I don't mean to equate the two, but I just want to point out that it is a good old American value to give everyone a fair trial. I suspect (don't recall) that after the SS got a fair trial, with a defense attorney who probably didn't volunteer the assignment, the guilty folks were probably suitably punished.
I don't respect McCarthy less for his role as a defense attorney.
For those interested in the charge, Freda Utley published an article in the American Mercury nearly fifty years ago dealing with this attempt to link the Senator with Nazis which may be found at http://www.fredautley.com/malmedy.htm.
Read it and then decide if Rabinowitz' snide little aside was warranted.