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...Witness Hans Cappelen, Norwegian, remembered how "they put a screw device on my leg so that all the meat started to loosen from the bones." (At this point. Defendant Joachim von Ribbentrop winced, tore off his earphones, hung his head.) Qappelen continued, telling of a trip across Germany to Dachau. Said he: "We were five days without food and water in open cars in sub-zero weather. About half the trainload was dead by the last day. ... In Munich, 100 of us prisoners, all looking like corpses, were marched through the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Memories | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...Chile arrived in a much better bargaining position than last year. Its industry has been concentrated in a trust, the "Cosach"; costs have been reduced and the selling price set at lower levels through removal of the export tax. Representing the Cosach was its president, Norse-born E. A. Cappelen Smith, skilled developer of the Guggenheim Process; representing the Guggenheims was broad-shouldered Edward Savage of Manhattan, Cosach director. Fluently and statistically they won other nations over to their contention that Chile had been asked to bear too great a monetary burden, that there was no reason why Chile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chile v. Europe | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

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