Word: leys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of those indicted was a Nazi Who's Who: former Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, Air Minister Hermann Göring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Labor Boss Robert Ley, Nazi Philosopher-in-Chief Alfred Rosenberg, and many another. Missing were Adolf Hitler (supposedly dead), Joseph Goebbels (reported dead), Heinrich Himmler (dead), and elusive Martin Bormann, one of Hitler's closest aides. On the assumption that Bormann was still on the loose, although he was supposed to have died with the Führer, military police were still searching for him all over Europe...
...Vatican circles privately listed Alfred Rosenberg (for his contributions to Nazi racist philosophy) as the top war criminal. Others: Goring (because he could have stopped Hitler in 1939 and because he bombed Rotterdam, Belgrade. Coventry, and, especially, Canterbury); Ley (because of "inhuman treatment of foreign labor...
...Gustav Krupp von Bohlen was there, and so were Militarists Keitel, Jodl, Raeder and Doenitz. There were Financiers Funk and Schacht, ex-Foreign Ministers von Neurath and von Ribbentrop and the cloak-&-dagger diplomat, Franz von Papen; there were names once famous in the Nazi hierarchy -Hess and Streicher, Ley and Rosenberg, and Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart (Netherlands) and von Schirach (Austria). And along with the familiar names were others: Sauckel, the slave-herder; Hans Fritzsche, the propagandist; ex-Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick; Ernst Kalten-brunner, originator of mass execution by gas, and Albert Speer. the brilliant, ruthless organizer of German...
Some of the Nazis resented their enforced association with such low characters as bald, bewhiskered Jew-baiter Julius Streicher and the disconsolate ex-führer of the Labor Front, Robert Ley. But all were forced to eat their plain meals together...
Shakespeare, Weeds, Fish. For amusement the Nazis lectured each other. Ley spoke on the role of private capital in rebuilding Germany. The Foreign Minister in Doenitz' short-lived surrender government, Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, discussed Shakespeare. Hans Joachim Riecke, Nazi agriculturist, described the best methods of fighting weeds, and Lieut. Colonel Ernst John von Freyand, former aide to Field Marshal Keitel, spoke freely on the breeding of fish...