The Crimes of War

August 6, 2001 · Magazine, Books and Arts

OVER DINNER AT THE TEHRAN CONFERENCE in 1943, Stalin coolly informed FDR and Churchill of a startling part of his plan for punishing Nazi aggression and deterring future German belligerence, once the war was won: "At least 50,000 and perhaps 100,000 of the German Commanding Staff must be physically…