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...confused with wit-wandering Rudolf Hess, now on trial at Nürnberg...
Twenty-five miles away, in Nürnberg, her husband, concluding his swaggering performance on the witness stand, was consistently eluding Prosecutor Jackson's angry questioning. Said Mrs. Göring. "I'm awfully proud of my husband because of his manliness and because he is standing up for his beliefs." She was surprised that he still spoke reverently of the Führer. Hitler, who was the godfather of her daughter Edda, "must have been awfully sick mentally at the end," she declared. "To think he wanted even our little Edda executed beside my husband...
Died. Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, 67, who as Hitler's first Minister of War began to build up the almost-all-conquering Wehrmacht; of a heart attack; in Nürnberg. In 1938, ostensibly because he married his "socially impossible" stenographer, ardent Nazi von Blomberg lost his job at the insistence of the Officer Corps, spent World War II on Capri in retirement...
...days later the Moscow radio picked up Churchill's charge that Russia had lowered "an iron curtain" across Europe, and retorted that U.S. and British "conservatives" were using "dirty methods of slander." The most significant comment of all came from a high-ranking Russian prosecutor at Nürnberg. After dutiful indignation that Churchill should have abused U.S. hospitality by such a speech, he continued...
...defense at Nürnberg opened its case last week, the Russian judges, aloof as statues, sat at the far end of the tribunal's bench. In their hard eyes, the fate of the accused was settled. But the 22 defense lawyers would fight hard, even though they had to defend the indefensible...