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...posturing crackpot of the war crimes, Rudolf Hess. He brushed aside the headphones which would have brought him the German translation of Justice Lawrence's sentence in English: life imprisonment. Not by a flicker of an eyelash did fox-chinned Hess betray surprise at the clemency he had received. The mill ground...
...random reportage. He has another bedside chat with the President (Lanny edits one of F.D.R.'s speeches, in which he invents and inserts the phrase "arsenal of democracy"), and is off to see Adolf Hitler chew a rug. Göring smuggle a swallow of dope, and "Rudi" Hess resolve to fly to England...
...confused with wit-wandering Rudolf Hess, now on trial at Nürnberg...
Many shared with their colleagues of the prosecution a feeling for the trial's grave historic impact. Said Hess's lawyer Dr. Alfred Seidl: "This is as new to me as it is to [Chief U.S. Prosecutor] Jackson. We are all groping in the dark. . . . We are just going to have to go through with this if we are going to prevent a third war." Said another, more intent on the immediate objective of saving 22 Nazi lives: "If Jackson was able to make new laws, the same should hold true...
Only with the war did the average German begin to hear of this wraith. He replaced Hess as Deputy Führer; his signature was required on all laws. He slithered about, watching generals and party leaders at work, and a disapproving word from him could mean death. Next to Hitler and Himmler, he was the most powerful man in all Germany...