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Thomas Mann, the greatest living German writer, is examining Germany's war guilt. He can do what neither Edmund Burke nor Nürnberg's Robert H. Jackson dared-indict a whole people. The evil that lay beneath the Wehrmacht, and the Nazi Party, and the factories, endures. The victors, who underestimated and misunderstood the evil, cannot extirpate it by battle, or military rule or reparations, or trial & punishment. They cannot even limit it until they understand it. So Thomas Mann, now a U.S. citizen, has written of "Germany and the Germans," in the current Yale Review...
David Low, the London Evening Standard's great cartoonist, last week wired the New York Times his impressions of the "rather inadequate" and "much too small" men in the dock at Nürnberg. He proved that he is also a cartoonist in words...
...rnberg judges turned from the 21 moody Nazi leaders in the dock to consider the guilt of thousands lower in the "hierarchy of descending Caesars." How many thousands, was the question. U.S. Prosecutor Jackson had said in his opening statement: ". . . We have no purpose to incriminate the whole German people." Somewhere a line had to be drawn...
...rnberg, enterprising reporters had interviewed Hermann Göring and other Nazi defendants by relaying questions through defense attorneys. The war crimes tribunal last week told counsel to cut it out; the Russians had complained...
Captain Sam Harris, 33, of New York, a handsome, uniformed, confident figure, stepped to the microphone in Nürnberg's courtroom last week and read seriously from the first page of his brief: "The noise you hear is my knees knocking. They haven't knocked like this since the day I asked my wife to marry me." To cover their embarrassment, the British lawyers smiled. The Russians shrugged; such naiveté was just one more thing they did not understand about Americans. But the Russians were not surprised when Harris went on to make a highly effective...