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Last week Washington heard reports that U.S. officials in Germany had found, in a transcript of the Molotov-Ribbentrop talks that preceded the 1941 German attack, a blueprint of Moscow's plans. Molotov wanted the Baltic states, all of Poland she then occupied, slices of Finland, eastern Rumania, complete control of the Dardanelles, a free hand in Iran and Iraq, and enough of Arabia to dominate the Persian Gulf. Ribbentrop thought Russia asked too much...
...Witness Hans Cappelen, Norwegian, remembered how "they put a screw device on my leg so that all the meat started to loosen from the bones." (At this point. Defendant Joachim von Ribbentrop winced, tore off his earphones, hung his head.) Qappelen continued, telling of a trip across Germany to Dachau. Said he: "We were five days without food and water in open cars in sub-zero weather. About half the trainload was dead by the last day. ... In Munich, 100 of us prisoners, all looking like corpses, were marched through the streets...
Cold Eyes. There was Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's protestation that he had been a statesman, not a Storm Trooper. Declared the prosecution: he had specifically approved the lynching of Allied flyers, and had labored long and hard to break the world's peace. Introduced as evidence: the diary of Count Galeazzo Ciano. Excerpt: " 'Well, Ribbentrop,' I asked him . . . 'what do you want? The Corridor or Danzig?' 'Not any longer,' and he fixed on me those cold Musée Grévin eyes of his. 'We want...
...Ribbentrop. "In London . . . a bouncing bounder. . . . Here he is now, changed surprisingly into a meek person like a family solicitor, with disordered hair, pursed lips and large spectacles...
Earlier in the week the defendants enjoyed themselves, nudging each other and laughing as documents and films recount ed their days of power. Rudolf Hess applauded Hitler on the screen. Former Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop wept, watching Hitler in a screaming speech and in an aside to U.S. Army Major Douglas Kelley, court psychiatrist, said: "Can't you just feel Hitler's tremendous personality? For us it was the most fearfully stimulating thing that has ever happened in our lifetime...