Released cabinet minutes show that "the wartime Prime Minister wanted Germany's leaders to be executed without 'the farce' of facing prosecution."
According to the wartime cabinet minutes, Churchill said the idea of what he believed would be mock trials was objectionable. 'It is really a political act: better to declare that. We shall put them to death,' Churchill said....
In a chillingly prescient observation of what was to come, Churchill was recorded as saying: 'This advance of Russia into heart of central Europe will be one of most terrible events in history. Don't believe they will willingly go back, at least in this generation.'
Churchill was in a small minority in recognizing early that the Nazi threat was 'the mainspring of evil' and opposing it without any "moderation." Much of the credit for the preservation of our civilization is owed to this man. If only there were leaders today who could recognize Islamism as its heir, we could be spared the deaths of untold multitudes.