Does Anyone Know If This is True?

Sheila Suess Kennedy | 06/09/2008 - 14:50

I came across this little nugget in an unrelated post, and it brought me up short.
"Regnery got its start publishing tracts against the Nuremberg trials that pressed war crimes charges against Nazi leaders."

Regnery, of course, is Regnery Books, a low-quality publisher of all manner of rightwing tripe. But it's hard to imagine anyone--even sleazy rightwingers--opposing a process to bring the killers of 12,000,000 innocent people to justice...

Anyone know if this is true?


Rebecca Vasko | 06/10/2008 - 20:54 |  Tripe is right

I don’t have any information about whether that is true, but I just took a look at Regnery’s web page, where they are advertising such books as Boys Should be Boys (“boys are facing an increasingly hostile world that discounts their masculine virtues”); Our Good Name (a defense by the government contractor involved in Abu Ghraib; I personally can think of no reason not to take the CEO’s word for it); 10 Books That Screwed Up The World (you may have thought things like war and unbridled capitalism had something to do with that, but you’d be wrong—it’s philosophy, and I suppose by extension, philosophers); The Really Inconvenient Truths (how Al Gore is bad for the planet—includes 7 environmental disasters caused by “the Left”); and, my personal favorite, The Practical Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (“Battle the Loony Left—and Keep Them OUT of the White House. Are you tired of self-satisfied liberals acting as if they are smarter than conservatives? Would you like to arm yourself with a full round of intellectual ammunition that can stop any liberal myth in its tracks? Look no further!”) You gotta love that irony. I mean, if the author doesn't think that liberals are in fact smarter, why has he written a handbook for conservatives full of “intellectual ammunition”?

Other featured books include Laura Ingraham’s Power to the People and Newt Gingrich’s Real Change.

That’s quite a stable. Who’s Regnery’s acquisitions editor? Ann Coulter?



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varangianguard | 06/09/2008 - 15:52 |  Difficult to say, exactly.

There certainly was quite a bit of "discussion" from certain points of view that criticized Allied war behavior, treatment of certain German and Japanese persons in post-war occupation governments, and the Nuremberg trials (the Japanese ones, too).

Most of the various Nuremberg trials had ended by 1946, so Regnery would have had to have published something prior to the current company's existence.

The period is not well known and while the major players might have been punished, lots of smaller players' fates were overlooked with the advent of Soviet intransigence in eastern Europe, while MacArthur successfully campaigned for a similar forgiveness in Japan as well.

Sad to say, but there was quite a bit of "aw, heck, they only killed a few thousand Jews, and they have real value for us in eastern Europe, so wink, wink, nod, nod..."

Simon Weisenthal didn't have a career of Nazi-hunting just because of Allied ineptitude in gathering up ex-Nazis at the end of the war's combat phase.

I know a little about some of this. I could talk at length about it, in fact. Not a shining moment for Democracy. But then, there's lots more of those than most people know about.



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