Word: rnberg
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...rnberg, which Germans used to call their Schatzküstlein (little jewel box), one looks down at night from the great 11th Century castle on the sparkling lights below which seem to stud a living, healthy city. But in the light of day, the city is a ruin, rendered only more monstrous by the neat little gingerbread houses which poke impertinently above the debris...
...armed forces, they fought on to the very last day of the war. Their record at sea during the whole war, too, was not as bad as it has been painted. Whatever they might have condoned or even applauded on shore, in all the evidence assembled at Nürnberg, there were only five cases of criminal conduct by U-boats...
...serving the sentence of life imprisonment imposed at Nürnberg...
From the outset, the judging nations were not quite sure of what rights they had over the accused, or under what laws the conduct of the accused should be judged. The hope was that these questions would become clear as the trials unfolded. Nürnberg, at first, seemed to bear out this hope-at least, the proceedings were conducted with dignity and in a spirit of fair play which diverted attention from the underlying absence of clarity. After three years of war trials, however, the world is no farther along than it was in 1945 to an understanding...
...court before which the trial of Japan's war leaders dragged on for 2½ dreary years in Tokyo's somber old War Ministry building lacked even Nürnberg's dignity. Eleven judges had been picked by U.S. General MacArthur from names submitted by eleven nations; there was bickering throughout the trial. At the final verdict (TIME, Nov. 22), the court's prestige was further muddied by U.S. Prosecutor Joseph Keenan's remark that Mamoru Shigemitsu (for whom he had asked the death sentence) should really have been acquitted. Presiding Justice Sir William Webb...