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Last week, for the first time in the U.S., the visible by-products of Beckmann's war work went on view in a Manhattan gallery. His fiery heavens, icy hells, and bestial men showed why he is called Germany's greatest living artist...
...faces told the story. For all their bestial apathy, for all the unfolding record of their deeds at Belsen and Oswiecim, the men and women in the dock at Luneburg were human, and theirs were human crimes...
...enormity of the case, the nauseating precision of its bestial details, were almost too much for the mechanism of British legal procedure. But the mechanism worked. The five British officers on the bench, and the learned judge advocate in grey wig and black robe, were dry-voiced and calm. Chief Prosecutor Colonel T. M. Backhouse worked his way through a maze of atrocities with a minimum of emotion (on the trial's tenth day, he went straight from the courtroom to officiate at a wedding...
Professional Tool. In contrast to some Nazis who have been addicts of drink, drugs, homosexuality or women, Himmler seems almost normal. He has never paid much visible attention to the neurotic mysticism of Hitler or to the abstruse ideologies of Rosenberg. Unlike the bestial Julius Streicher, he does not appear to delight in brutality for its own sake. He simply uses terror with absolute cold-bloodedness and efficiency as his main professional tool...
...overemotional, occasionally theatrical (in phrases such as "Battles are merely the flashing, seductive garments that hide the passionate but terrible whore's body of war"). But it carries the conviction of a man whose spirit has been tried by seven years' intimacy with war's "dumb, bestial suffering, weariness, and utter and devastating exhaustion...