Word: lahousen
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...long sentences gave way to the living, somewhat strained voice of the trial's first witness. To the microphone came a tall, cadaverous-looking man whose bald head shone brightly under the floodlights; dark glasses and earphones gave him a horror-story air. He was Major General Erwin Lahousen, aide to the late, little-known Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Wehrmacht's counterintelligence. After the unsuccessful bomb attempt on the Führer's life in July 1944, Canaris was slowly strangled with piano wire...
...that would be bad for their morale. (Keitel, one of Hitler's most devoted yes-generals, who had never succeeded in crashing the tight circle of "real" Junkers, had defended himself through his lawyer by declaring that he had merely done his ordinary duties as a soldier.) As Lahousen spoke, he squirmed uncomfortably. Earlier in the trial, he had complained to his colleague Colonel General Alfred Jodl: "The court just doesn't seem to realize the principle of 'orders are orders.' . . . It's not up to the Wehrmacht staff to question the Führer...
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