Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chambers of Oswiecim. The accused were 45 men & women who had worked at Belsen and Oswiecim concentration camps, now being tried under a warrant from His Britannic Majesty by a British military court. From a plain wooden witness box in the center of the converted gymnasium which served as courtroom, day after day, witness after witness added to the compendium of horror...
...Robe. The citizens of the little town of Lüneburg, where the trial was being held, crowded into the grey courtroom. They were seldom moved by what they heard. But they gaped at the drab, precise, and-to them-ridiculously fair ways of foreign justice...
...scar gleamed red, but he showed no other sign of emotion. Leaving the dock, he smiled and waved at his brother Edwin, a British civil servant. Edwin waved back. To bystanders the two gestures looked like Fascist salutes. But when William had been led away, Edwin knelt on the courtroom floor and made the sign of the cross...
Careful Case. "What have you to say for yourself, Herr Quisling?" asked the Presiding Judge when cross-examination began. Quisling started from sodden composure, looked out across the heads of the intent, silent courtroom crowd...
Even Norwegian patience was strained when again & again Quisling said that he did not remember (he did not even remember forming his traitorous government). But that shabby device failed him when he heard his own voice, in a recording of his "inauguration speech," grating through the courtroom. Said he when the record scratched to an end: "It's me, all right...