the essential "civilizational" symbols in Court Room 600 in the Palace of Justice over the door to the left side of the defendents of the 1945-46 Nuremberg Trials: the Medusa, Adam and Eve by the Tree, Germanic and Roman Law...
and over the interpreters: the scales of justice over the 10 Commandments.
...‘dictates of the public conscience and general principles of law recognized by the community of nations’...
as needed and understandable as this was, conscience can only with difficulty be other than personal.
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