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...Koch: "My father was a German...
...Koch: "You know and I know that for a time there were two Italys. The son of a German, I sided with the Italy which sided with Germany. Many Italians sided with Germany until the moment came to take the rap. That moment is now and here I stand...
...Koch had once said: "Whenever I meet anyone, I prepare the look I am going to give him. Seems silly, does it? You'd be surprised how big strong men shuffle in their shoes, look down and feel at a dis advantage by a timely steeling of my eyes. Then if my eyes softened, they softened too and out came their story...
There are whole volumes on this subject." But this morning, when Koch saw across the room the black-clad figures of three widows of men he had tortured and sent to death, he suddenly became absorbed in studying a fresco of Sapienza (Wisdom) on the ceiling...
Stern Judges. The judges entered. Four were regular magistrates with stern expressions ; five were representatives of left-wing parties. Koch was called to the bar by the president. He might have been walking into a cafe. The glance he cast at the judges might be meant for a bar tender. He merely nodded curtly in answer to the judge's questions. President Maroni: "Will you answer with something more than gestures?" Koch's voice suddenly rang out loud and firm, almost triumphant: "I was born at Benevento in south Italy 27 years ago. I was in Leghorn waiting...