If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes,
they are crimes whether the United States does them
or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared
to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others
which we would not be willing to have invoked against
us. ...We must never forget that the record on which
we judge these defendants is the record on which
history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these
defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips
as well.
Justice Robert Jackson, Chief Counsel for the US at Nuremberg
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