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...president of Manhattan's Manning, Maxwell & Moore, Inc. (cranes, hoists, safety valves, etc.). Born a poor boy in Ashtabula, Ohio, Wason got his first job at eleven, worked his way through high school as a janitor. After graduation he worked as a longshoreman, blacksmith's helper and dock hand, and cub reporter on the Ashtabula Independent at $15 a week...
...accused in the dock were gripped by the horror they had created. Hess watched in tense fascination. Göring reddened when the film was three-quarters through, gazed fixedly at his lap until the film was over. Keitel mopped his brow and covered his eyes. Alfred Rosenberg, the philosopher, looked away frequently, nervously picked with his nails at splinters in the guard rail before him. Ribbentrop remained calm, shook his head in disbelief. Hans Frank, ex-Governor General of Poland, wept...
...Only Way. These 20 strangely dissimilar men in Nürnberg's dock had been drawn together by the forces that shaped Germany after World War I and by Adolf Hitler. For all the German people knew or cared last week, Hitler was in hell or in Valhalla. Nor did they care about the 20 or their punishment. In Berlin, where Allied loudspeakers relayed the trial news in public squares, most pedestrians did not even stop to listen. In a Berlin poll last week, Grete Schweinchen, a social worker, expressed a widespread German reaction: "It's carrying...
...German people were not on trial; neither was Germany as a nation (said Jackson: ". . . we have no purpose to incriminate the whole German people"). The case against the 20 men in the dock rested on the prosecution's theory of "individual responsibility" ("Who was responsible for these crimes if they were not?"). This theory in turn rested on the premise that Adolf Hitler, such top Nazis as the dead Heinrich Himmler, the 20 in the dock and some 2,000,000 members of the Nazi Party's "Leadership Corps" (the Gestapo, SA, SS, etc.) had imposed Naziism...
...India, crusty, conservative old Leopold Amery had stood by Churchill's side during the war's grim years. In October, the King awarded the rare Imperial Order of the Crown of India to Mrs. Florence Amery. Five weeks later the Amerys' elder son stood in the dock at Old Bailey and heard a judge intone:"John Amery, you now stand a self-convicted traitor to your King and country, and you have forfeited the right to live...