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During the Nuremberg Trials, General Von dem Bach-Zelewski testified against the defendants. Yet he himself was a war criminal, he oversaw the Einsatzgruppen and put down the Warsaw Uprising which killed 200,000 civilians. Why was he never charged by the court?

by /u/Lewisb2 in /r/AskHistorians

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