Word: andrus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven men for whom this night held no dawn ate a last supper of potato salad, sausage, cold cuts, black bread and tea. At 9 p.m., the prison lights were dimmed. At 10:45, U.S. Army Security officer Colonel Burton C. Andrus walked across the prison courtyard to set the night's lethal machinery in motion. The whole prison was permeated by the thought of impending death. (The Courthouse movie announced the next day's attraction: Deadline for Murder...
...happened because the Army had placed in charge of the prison a pompous, unimaginative, and thoroughly likable officer who wasn't up to his job. Colonel Burton C. Andrus loved that job. Every morning his plump little figure, looking like an inflated pouter pigeon, moved majestically into the court, impeccably garbed in his uniform and highly shellacked helmet. His bow to the judges as they entered was one of the sights of Nürnberg. He loved to pen little notes: "The American Colonel invites the distinguished French prosecutor and his staff to accompany him to a baseball game...
...insisted that the prisoners sleep with hands outside the blankets. He required prisoners to take exercise periods during which their cells were searched. He had designed interview booths in which prisoners and visitors could converse with one another without being able to touch hands. All seemed well, but Andrus forgot that a pattern had been set, and with men like Göring, just to see the pattern was to see ways to break...
...days. On sentencing day itself a woman reporter moved by all the guards and reached the courtroom, to discover that she had forgotten to take a .38 caliber revolver out of her handbag. She could have leaned over and shot Göring -or the Chief Justice. But Colonel Andrus puttered about, occasionally stealing a dentist's tool from the prison dentist's office, just to see if it would be missed. It always...
...flashes hanging all eleven Nazis, but quickly killed the flashes. The chosen eight newsmen who were in at the deaths knew about Göring - but the Allied Control Commission kept them incommunicado. It was three and a half hours after the final hanging before puffing Colonel Burton C. Andrus, prison commandant, shamefacedly told reporters outside - and the world - that Göring had cheated the gallows (see INTERNATIONAL). It had been a memorable, unhappy night for everybody - including those who lived through...