Nuremberg Trial Records Online: Finally, Proof for the Terminally Gullible

Alright, so they're dumping the Nuremberg trial records online. Big deal. Another "historic" archive for the masses. Harvard Law School, bless their hearts, spent 25 years digitizing this crap. You know, removing staples like it's some holy ritual.

The "Dawn of the Internet Era"? Please.

Paul Deschner, the project lead, says they did it to preserve documents and make them "accessible in the dawn of the internet era." The dawn? Seriously? We're practically at the freakin' singularity, and these guys are just figuring out the internet? Give me a break.

And the reason? "Acid-based mimeographed paper." Oh noes! Paper from the 40s is falling apart! Alert the media! I mean, I get it, preservation is important, but let's not pretend this is some act of selfless heroism. It's Harvard Law School covering its ass, plain and simple. They don't want to be the institution that lost the freaking Nuremberg files, offcourse.

They've got 750,000 pages of transcripts, briefs, and evidence from 13 cases. Thirteen! Only three were found not guilty. Talk about a stacked deck. And now, "ordinary users" can sift through it all. What are we supposed to do with this stuff? Play lawyer on Twitter?

Bureaucratic Euphemisms and the Banality of Evil

Deschner claims the documents show how the Nazis hatched their plans for the Holocaust. Like we didn't already know that. He says the horror is sometimes "euphemistic, in bureaucratese." Oh, you mean like when they called it "the final solution"? Yeah, real subtle, guys.

"It has enormous utility for people who have eyes to see, ears to hear…" What is this, a fortune cookie? If you can't figure out that genocide is bad without sifting through 750,000 pages of legal documents, you're beyond hope.

And who's actually using this stuff? Historians, film producers, and people looking for info on their relatives. So, basically, the same people who were already interested in the Nuremberg trials. What about the rest of us? Are we supposed to just randomly stumble upon some life-altering truth buried in a footnote? I doubt it.

Speaking of film producers... this whole thing just screams "true crime documentary" cash grab, doesn't it? Expect a deluge of poorly-researched, sensationalized garbage hitting Netflix in the next few years.

Academic Freedom Under Threat?

Deschner claims this project is important because "academic freedom is under threat." Oh, please. Everything's "under threat" these days. Universities are being "challenged" over their role as places for fostering truth. Yeah, because they're too busy coddling snowflakes and pushing woke agendas.

And then he goes after "dyed-in-the-wool Holocaust deniers." Okay, those guys are obviously nuts. But does anyone actually think that putting these documents online is going to change their minds? They'll just find some new way to twist the facts, claim it's all a conspiracy, or whatever. It's like trying to argue with a brick wall.

Amanda Watson from Harvard Law School's library chimes in, saying, "When we make justice visible, we make it possible." Gag me with a spoon. This isn't about justice; it's about Harvard getting good PR.

Honestly, I'm not sure what's worse: the fact that they're patting themselves on the back for this, or the fact that people will probably eat it up.

I was watching a news story earlier about a birth mother who found out her daughter died on a cruise ship... through Google. Through freakin' Google! Now that's a story about information access gone wrong. You can read more about that specific case in "Birth mother says she learned Central Florida daughter died on cruise ship via online search." But hey, at least Harvard's got their Nuremberg files online. Priorities, people.

So, What's the Real Story?

It's a virtue signal wrapped in acid-free paper, delivered just in time for the 80th anniversary. Don't expect it to change a damn thing.