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...month he snagged Telford Taylor, 43, an old New Deal friend of Truman's, who has made a notable record as general counsel for the Federal Communications Commission, as a G-2 brigadier general in World War II and, later, as chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nürnberg war crimes trials. A Harvard Law School graduate ('32), Taylor left the Government in 1949, this year began his own Manhattan law practice...
Within 2½ hours, the seven-responsible for the killing of millions-were dead. They were the last of 275 Nazis condemned to death by U.S. occupation authorities. Five and a half years after the first war-crimes trial opened at Nürnberg, the horror-laden case was closed...
...London, Sir Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nürnberg war crimes trials, and new President of the British Board of Trade, delivered a judgment on feminine fashions: "No woman in Britain should have so many clothes that she can ask her husband, 'What shall I wear tonight?' " Furthermore, he added, "the only clothes suitable for the wife of any member of the Government obviously are sackcloth and ashes nowadays...
Last week the 52-year-old general, a Prussian army veteran, marched into the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Department office in Nürnberg to make a paradoxical confession. It was he who had given the face-saving poison to the man whom he had accused...
...rnberg prison, Bach-Zelewski explained, he had kept the three phials of cyanide which all SS commanders regularly carried, for use in case of capture. Because he was a witness, not a prisoner, guards had not searched him. When Göring, who occupied the opposite cell, asked Bach-Zelewski for some poison, the general obliged. One day, as they met in the corridor, Bach-Zelewski slipped the phial to Göring under cover of a handshake. It was hidden inside a bar of G.I. laundry soap...