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...rnberg's dock smiled more than they had for years. They were generally more relaxed and in better health. But most of them knew they would not live to see another spring in Germany...
...Only Way. These 20 strangely dissimilar men in Nürnberg's dock had been drawn together by the forces that shaped Germany after World War I and by Adolf Hitler. For all the German people knew or cared last week, Hitler was in hell or in Valhalla. Nor did they care about the 20 or their punishment. In Berlin, where Allied loudspeakers relayed the trial news in public squares, most pedestrians did not even stop to listen. In a Berlin poll last week, Grete Schweinchen, a social worker, expressed a widespread German reaction: "It's carrying...
Hell's Fires. "We are gathered," said the presiding judge, Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, "to try crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity." With this mildly prejudicial statement, the Nürnberg trial opened. The four judges and their four alternates on the bench of the international tribunal sat reassuringly close to their respective national flags. Their high office and lofty task were symbolized by specially designed emblems, showing judicial scales suspended over a red area (presumably hell's punishing fires) and a fallen German eagle...
Also a Floor Show. Outside the drab Palace of Justice, the citizens of ancient Nürnberg expended little thought or care on their former leaders. Once, in this very town, they had cheered them year after year with apoplectic fervor. Now, one of them said: "The trials? Na ja. Of course criminals should be brought to trial. It isn't the fault of us poor people." Said another: "You accuse them of making war. Are you not preparing new wars...
...star cast of jurists at Nürnberg...