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...five glassy-eyed locksmiths in the dock (three generals, two admirals) then heard Colonel Taylor read a damning affidavit by one of their own clique. Its author was Field Marshal Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg, who had been German War Minister until 1938, when he was given the boot, ostensibly for marrying a prostitute. Wrote Blomberg: ". . . There was no reason to oppose Hitler since he produced the results which [the generals] desired...
David Low, the London Evening Standard's great cartoonist, last week wired the New York Times his impressions of the "rather inadequate" and "much too small" men in the dock at Nürnberg. He proved that he is also a cartoonist in words...
...ring. "Stands out by a mile as the boss in this company. He is a restless prisoner, leaning this way and that, flapping his pudgy little hands about, patting his hair, stroking his mouth, massaging his cheeks, resting his chin sideways on the ledge of the dock...
...rnberg judges turned from the 21 moody Nazi leaders in the dock to consider the guilt of thousands lower in the "hierarchy of descending Caesars." How many thousands, was the question. U.S. Prosecutor Jackson had said in his opening statement: ". . . We have no purpose to incriminate the whole German people." Somewhere a line had to be drawn...
...going for the U.S. attitude, summed up by Jackson's statement that the U.S. would not have participated in the trials without "this or some equivalent plan of reaching thousands of others who, if less conspicuous, are just as guilty of these crimes as the men in the dock...