Word: british
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1947, U.S., British and Canadian technicians have been exploring ways & means of standardizing their nations' weapons and military training. A U.S. mission, dubbed "Nuts & Bolts," journeyed to Britain, made recommendations to British industry for common designs in key armaments (which were never fully achieved even in World...
White-haired, ill and nearly blind, Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, who had fought for Germany in two world wars, sat calmly day after day in a Hamburg concert hall which had been turned into a courtroom, while British and German lawyers argued whether he was a criminal or just an officer who had done his duty...
Manstein was the last of the defendants in the war-crimes trials of World War II. When his British judges handed down their verdict this week, the Allies closed their case against the enemy leaders whom, in the name of all mankind, they had arraigned for crimes against humanity...
After four years in British custody without trial, Manstein was finally brought before a British military tribunal in Hamburg last August. Britons raised a ?1,620 fund to help pay for his defense; Winston Churchill contributed...
...Jews, gypsies and other minorities, the execution of Russian soldiers, political commissars and civilians, and the deportation of Russians to Germany for slave labor. The defense tried to show that there was little to connect their client personally with any of these deeds. The slaughter of Jews, contended his British and German lawyers, was carried out by an SS unit attached to Manstein's command only for "supply" purposes...