Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rnberg's dock smiled more than they had for years. They were generally more relaxed and in better health. But most of them knew they would not live to see another spring in Germany...
...accused in the dock were gripped by the horror they had created. Hess watched in tense fascination. Göring reddened when the film was three-quarters through, gazed fixedly at his lap until the film was over. Keitel mopped his brow and covered his eyes. Alfred Rosenberg, the philosopher, looked away frequently, nervously picked with his nails at splinters in the guard rail before him. Ribbentrop remained calm, shook his head in disbelief. Hans Frank, ex-Governor General of Poland, wept...
...Only Way. These 20 strangely dissimilar men in Nürnberg's dock had been drawn together by the forces that shaped Germany after World War I and by Adolf Hitler. For all the German people knew or cared last week, Hitler was in hell or in Valhalla. Nor did they care about the 20 or their punishment. In Berlin, where Allied loudspeakers relayed the trial news in public squares, most pedestrians did not even stop to listen. In a Berlin poll last week, Grete Schweinchen, a social worker, expressed a widespread German reaction: "It's carrying...
...German people were not on trial; neither was Germany as a nation (said Jackson: ". . . we have no purpose to incriminate the whole German people"). The case against the 20 men in the dock rested on the prosecution's theory of "individual responsibility" ("Who was responsible for these crimes if they were not?"). This theory in turn rested on the premise that Adolf Hitler, such top Nazis as the dead Heinrich Himmler, the 20 in the dock and some 2,000,000 members of the Nazi Party's "Leadership Corps" (the Gestapo, SA, SS, etc.) had imposed Naziism...
...observers, the figure thus impeccably attired was not really Civilization, but just a powerful, angry American, name of Robert Jackson, of Jamestown, N.Y. But to the more imaginative (including Jackson) it was Civilization itself which stood at the prosecutor's rostrum, resonantly accusing the 20 Germans in the dock of vile assault & battery on all mankind...