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Curtiss Ives

Curtiss Ives was one of the three American judges who presided over the trials of ex-Nazi judges Ernst Janning, Emil Hahn, Werner Lampe, and Friedrich Hofstetter at Nuremberg in 1948. Ives was the most conservative of the three judges, sympathizing with US Senator Edward Burkette and Brigadier-General Matt Merrin's views that the four men should be let off with light sentences to avert alienating the German people as the Cold War with the Soviets intensified. When fellow judges Dan Haywood and Kenneth Norris decided to convict the four Nazis, Ives announced his dissent, believing that the question of whether their following of orders was ethical should be left to history rather than to a courtroom; he did not believe that the four men were responsible for their actions.

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