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...measured eight feet square. From each platform rose two heavy beams, supporting a heavy crosspiece with a hook for the rope in the middle. An inconspicuous lever served to open the traps. The space beneath the traps was hidden by curtains. 1:11 a.m. Two white-helmeted guards led Joachim von Ribbentrop from his cell down the corridor and across the courtyard. He walked as in a trance, his eyes half closed. The wind ruffled his sparse grey hair. Overhead, the same wind whipped clouds into bizarre patterns...
...Joachim von Ribbentrop wept repeatedly while he saw his wife for the last time. Ernst Kaltenbrunner desperately tried to kiss his mistress (and mother of his two children) through the grille of the visitors' room. Wilhelm Frick moaned: "All is finished, and there isn't much use waiting around." Goring read Bengt W. K. Berg's To Africa with the Migratory Birds. Funk (who had escaped with life) read Paul de Kruif's Men against Death...
...last act in the drama of the war crimes trial that had begun ten months before. It moved swiftly. Göring took off his headphones, turned swiftly about, was ushered to the elevator outside. On the way he passed Joachim von Ribbentrop...
Married. Carl Joachim Hambro, 60, well-to-do, Conservative president of Norway's Odelsting (Lower House of Parliament), onetime president of the League Assembly, now a UNO delegate; and Gyda Christensen, 73, Norse actress; he for the second time, she for the third; in Oslo...
...Witness Hans Cappelen, Norwegian, remembered how "they put a screw device on my leg so that all the meat started to loosen from the bones." (At this point. Defendant Joachim von Ribbentrop winced, tore off his earphones, hung his head.) Qappelen continued, telling of a trip across Germany to Dachau. Said he: "We were five days without food and water in open cars in sub-zero weather. About half the trainload was dead by the last day. ... In Munich, 100 of us prisoners, all looking like corpses, were marched through the streets...