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Hermann Göring was first. Slimmed down, limply clad in a grey suit that once fitted him snugly, he strode into the courtroom at Nürnberg, flanked by two white-helmeted military policemen. He stood erect under the glaring lights, fixed headphones to his ears. British Presiding Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence looked sternly down on the No. 2 Nazi and pronounced sentence: death by hanging...
...ring been tried in Bad Nauheim instead of Nürnberg he probably would have been given an official reprimand, fined 500 marks and given the option of letting Justice Jackson off scot-free or prosecuting him for maliciously instigating his trial...
Swinging through Europe, on a hangman's holiday, which will take him to Vienna, Graz, northern Italy and (reportedly) to Nürnberg in time to officiate should Nazi leaders be hanged: Albert ("Yungg Alber"*) Pierrepoint, Britain's Senior Hangman. In Vienna, Pierrepoint will hang eight murderers and rapists, a refresher course for Austrian hangmen (conservative Austrian methods cause hanged men to struggle 20 minutes before dying; the progressive Pierrepoint system kills them almost at once). After his European tour, Hangman Pierrepoint plans to retire and to devote himself to his recently acquired Lancashire pub (name: "Help...
...that German lead pencils built. The Fabers still live at Faber Castle, but in a former guesthouse, still manufacture pencils on the grounds, but mostly for the Military Government. Since November the castle has housed the foreign pencils and typewriters of the world's press corps covering the Nürnberg trials. Last week the frenzied work, the legendary drinking bouts were over. To one last gigantic press party went judges, prosecutors, almost everyone in Nürnberg but the defendants. Except for a brief Judgment Day reopening (Sept. 23), Faber was ready to take its little niche in journalistic history with...
...accused made their last pleas to the bar, to the German people and to history. The strong ones spoke as though they were still addressing a Nürnberg party rally, reaffirming the faith by which they had lived and killed. The weak ones merely whimpered professions of their innocence. Then the eight judges retired to arrive at a verdict and (in the words of the French prosecutor) "a solemn and serene manifestation of justice...