Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered to kill him, which he does with pleasure if not comprehension. Long afterwards, as LeGuen awaits execution for the continuence of these indulgences in times of peace, a former member of the Gestapo is accused of Sautier's murder. LeGuen, who had never been caught, is convinced to confess to this murder, too, so that he can get another trial. To preserve her husband's memory, however, Sautier's wife insists that the Gestapo killed him. Although she is too compassionate to accuse the German, her story makes her an accomplice to LeGuen's punishment...
...that Fikes had been denied due process before and during his trial. After his arrest, they argued, Fikes had first been lodged in a local jail, then whisked away to a state prison, where he was held incommunicado for more than a week-during which state officers obtained two confessions that later provided the basis for his conviction. Although the lawyers were unable to prove physical brutality, they declared that the prisoner's mental background-three psychiatrists had attested to the fact that Fikes was schizophrenic, or, as his mother had put it at the trial, "thick-headed"-made...
Budapest-born Arthur Koestler was the first to dramatize the theory that a strong shot of ideological doubletalk, administered with a minimum of sleep, was enough to persuade an old Communist to confess to, and even agree to be shot for, errors he had not committed. Though a brilliant anti-Communist novel, Koestler's Darkness at Noon left the lingering impression that the Communist inquisitors won by superior cunning...
...good deal simpler and more sinister than what Koestler imagined. The 1949 show trial of Hungary's Communist Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk read as if it had been taken from Koestler's pages. Apparently for reasons of party unity, Rajk, like Koestler's Rubashov, confessed in court to treasonable deviation. But no relentless interrogator was needed to persuade Rajk to confess. The job was done by Rajk's friend Janos Kadar, now the puppet Premier of Hungary...
...involved the new Delmas Road leading out of Port-au-Prince; real-estate records show that before the road was built Magloire and his cronies bought up big blocks of the land along each side. And as the stories began to come out, dozens of businessmen stepped forward to confess that profit-sharing with the President had been for years the only way to operate...