Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he was ready, John Amery shook hands with a young woman believed to be Una Wing, his actress wife, and with his brother Julian, a captain in a parachute regiment. Later the prison chaplain came into the cell, but Amery had nothing to say to him. He walked alone to the execution chamber, where Hangman Pierrepont was waiting. With a firm step John Amery climbed the gallows...
Mused Hess in his Nürnberg cell: "The decision . . . was without doubt the hardest I ever made. It was rendered easier, however, when I visualized the endless rows of children's coffins in both Germany and England, with mothers in dire distress following behind, and similar rows of mothers killed by bombs, with crying children following. I assume many people will interpret this as misplaced sentimentalism...
Some faced it with bravado-like ex-Fighter Pilot Hermann Göring, who gestured and postured and smiled his dimpled smile. Others tried to ignore it-like Colonel General Alfred Jodl who, contrary to rules, hid his head at night under the blankets in his cell. Still others fought it alternately with cool logic and indignant tantrums-like Banker Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht...
...cramps, which made him rock back & forth on his bench. (Unimpressed, his U.S. doctor advised him to keep rocking.) The only display of what the Germans call Galgenhumor (humor of the gallows) came from ex-Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach. Said he, as he was served dinner in his cell: "If the victuals continue to get better, they'll be serving us steak by the time they hang...
Their first day as defendants had tired them. By 7 the cell block was quiet. All were asleep. Mused a reporter: "I'd give anything for a look at their dreams...