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...rnberg of 1934 faded from the screen and the lights of Nürnberg, 1945, went up. Colonel John Harlan Amen, who once helped Bill O'Dwyer clean up Brooklyn's Murder Inc., softly asked: "Do you remember? Hess tried to brush his hand against his eyes, but the handcuffs stopped him. Said he: "I must have been there ... I don't remember...
...only war trials so far have been conducted by national courts, like the Norwegian tribunal which sentenced Vidkun Quisling. The first international trials will begin at Nürnberg late this month, when 23 top-drawer German defendants are brought to bar. A checklist of some of those already judged by national courts...
...meant what he said. One evening last week, in his war criminal's cell at Nürnberg, Robert Ley hanged himself...
...Nazi elite were gathering again at Nürnberg. But the old Parteitag pomp and mass hysteria were gone. This time the leaders had to make their speeches in prison cells, where they awaited trial by the United Nations War Crimes Commission for being Nazis and starting the war. Most of them were hard at work on their defense. Chances were they would claim to be guilty only of German patriotism...
...trials were to have started some time in September in the Nürnberg courthouse. But choice of counsel for the defendants would cause some delay, and last week the main floor of the courthouse collapsed. Army officers feared repairs might take six months. The only other building in Nürnberg large enough to hold the expected crowds was the opera house, which the authorities had once vetoed, feared because its theatrical air lacked solemnity...