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Missing from the prisoners' dock at Minsk's war-crimes trial was a notable offender-Wilhelm Kube, Commissioner General of Byelorussia during the German occupation. Last week's testimony told...
...Menthon, the 20 Boches in the dock were not the only guilty ones. The entire German people was to blame, he declared, for Naziism merely had exploited their "power of latent barbarism . . . one of the deepest and most tragic facets of the German soul. . . . Certain of their eternal and deep-seated aspirations have found monstrous expressions under the Hitler regime; their entire responsibility is involved. . . . Their re-education is indispensable...
Among those in the dock was Heinz Hermann Koch, 32, a foolish grin on his heavy, sensual face. Koch had once been a Stuttgart hairdresser. "But I didn't like being a hairdresser," he told the court. "I wanted women, drink, money. So I joined the Gestapo...
...human skin was prized for leather and bindings. . . ." Pointing an accusing finger at Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, Reichsbank President Walter Funk, Labor Boss Fritz Sauckel and Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, the witness said that they had visited Dachau concentration camp, and had watched its atrocity show. (The four in the dock sat bolt upright, clenching the rail before them...
...build the plane had been spent. Although Hughes had agreed to meet any costs over this amount, Perelle went to Washington and saw RFC. Having already sunk so much in the plane, RFC agreed to put up another $1,500,000 to move the plane ($60,000), build a dock ($250,000), assemble the ship and test it ($1,190,000). All Hughes had to do was sign the contract...