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Hess. "Vic Oliver [Churchill's son-in-law] made up as Boris Karloff and painted the color of a corpse. . . . Down to skin and bone, going bald, wild eyes set in deep-sunken cavities, he has a nervous twitch and jerky movements...
There were signs that at least two of the judges were not convinced that the prosecution was proving its case against even the intermediate echelons. Bald, stocky Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, presiding judge, cut in with some sharp questions. Storey read a letter from Reichsleiter Martin Bormann to Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg. Lawrence asked what the correspondence had to do with block leaders. Again, when Storey read an anti-Jewish police order from Himmler's Gestapo headquarters to district police chiefs, Lawrence interrupted: the letter's topic seemed to him a police, not a party matter. U.S. Judge Francis Biddle...
...French and Russian judges gave no sign of their opinions. Bald, mustached Henri Donnedieu de Vabres, a professor at the University of Paris, who has never been a judge and never practised law, seemed lost. Once he asked a question that indicated that he had not been following the testimony too successfully. A British prosecutor answered with condescending politeness: "If the learned French judge will look on page so-and-so. . . ." Donnedieu subsided into confused mumblings and rustled among the books and papers in front of him. The Russian, Major General I. T. Nikitchenko, says little in open court...
...Bald Fritz Sauckel had preserved an air of head-shaking detachment from his fellow criminals. But when a document was introduced showing that even Rosenberg had asked Sauckel to use restraint in his treatment of the slaves, he bowed his bullet head...
Germany's traditional and somber Repentance Day, almost forgotten under the Nazis, was celebrated with special fervor this year. Portly, bald Theology Professor Heinrich Vogel of the University of Berlin wrote a special prayer for the occasion. In the Evangelical churches (about 1,500) of Berlin and Brandenburg synod, German heads bowed piously to its words...