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60 YEARS AFTER NUREMBERG How the Nazi Trials Helped Spawn Modern Justice The idea of achieving peace through justice rose out of the ruins of Germany 60 years ago and made its way around the world. In Nuremberg, the Nazi elite were made to answer for their crimes. The trials also ushered in an era of modern international law. The new center of international criminal law stands on the outskirts of The Hague, already visible as one approaches from the motorway-- a striped cube, slammed down between white office blocks. It's the central nervous system of the International Criminal Court,...

On the surface there would seem to be little to unite the Aryan racialists of the neo-Nazi movement with the terrorists of radical Islam. To the neo-Nazis, Muslims are almost all members of ``inferior`` races; and to the Islamic terrorists, the neo-Nazis are almost without exception either atheists or members of fringe quasi-Christian sects. But the reality is that there has been close cooperation between Muslim extremists and Fascists ever since the founding of the Nazi movement in the 1920`s. For all of their differences, Muslim extremists and Nazis have always been united by a common group of beliefs and...