Italian fascism, in adopting the old Roman symbol of authority (the fasces), looked back to the days of the Roman Empire, which controlled much of Western Europe. ... For Hitler, in identifying "goodness" and "superiority" with "us," there was a tendency to identify "evil" with "them." ...
This fact plus the fact that the Allied nations needed to find a way to punish the Nazi aggressors and redress the evils they inflicted upon Europe forced them to invent a trial format which they deemed would appear as fair as could be constructed given the post-war circumstances (www.courttv.com/nuremberg/legacy.html). ... Using a trial format, which the majority of the world perceives as a symbol of justice, seemed the correct venue to obtain this closure. "The acts of Nazi Germany left no doubt that massive evil could emanate from the very summit of a nation state such a case called for an...
Philip Zimbardo once stated, At the core of all evil is the process of dehumanization, by which certain other people or collective of them, are depicted as less than human, as non-comparable in humanity, or personal dignity to those who are labeling. ...
