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...opening of the war crimes trials. Since the world could not survive a repition of the crimes of the Nazis, it could not afford to ignore them. The American Military Government in Germany did worse than ignore them last week. It minimized them. It reduced the sentence of Frau Ilse Koch from life imprisonment to four years...
...Frau Koch, widow of a former Buchenwald commandant, is known as the Bitch of Buchenwald. At her trial she was convicted of having prisoners beaten to death, of using their skins as lampshades and other ornaments, and of taking part in the common design of cruelty in the camp. The most damaging testimony was presented by her own defense witnesses...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Radio premiere of Richard Strauss's Fantasy on Die Frau Ohm Schatten...
...Hungry Five," these gentlemen sported the thickest of gutterel accents, the nattiest of knee-length stockings, and a monstrous tuba that was seven feet tall if it was an inch, grinding out such old favorites as "If You Knew Brunnhilde Like I Know Brunnhilde" ("wow--wow--wow what a frau") and Becthoven's 10th Symphony which smacked suspiciously of "Roll Out the Barrel." Fifteen minutes of slapstick were never more enjoyable as this bizarre ensemble umpahed its way through the finest of old Vienna schmaltz...
...Frau Leber's voice trembles with emotion as she concludes: "We were democrats in 1933 . . . Our spirit has stood a test which not every free citizen would have found easy to meet . . . We know that dictatorship can be beaten only by meeting it before it begins. That is why we are willing to risk everything today .. . But we solemnly warn every democratic citizen of the free world of the urgency of this moment when he must make a good and a clear decision. Otherwise, Berlin will be lost, with only a diplomatic protest as an after-echo...