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November 24, 2020

Sukkot, the Tower of Babel, and Bringing Nazi War Criminals to Justice

Gog and Magog at Nuremburg.

Seventy-five years ago this month, the war-crimes trials of the leading figures in the Nazi regime commenced in the German city of Nuremburg. The trials concluded the following October, so that the first of the eleven convicts sentenced to the gallows—the propagandist Julius Streicher—was hanged on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Meir Soloveichik observes:

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November 24, 2020

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  3. Sukkot, the Tower of Babel, and Bringing Nazi War Criminals to Justice

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