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...Robert Ley's brain was en route to Washington within a week after the bibulous Nazi labor leader's suicide. The U.S. Surgeon General's office wanted to find out for sure what was the matter...
Among the opportunists, perverts, gangsters and men of distorted genius who rose to power in Hitler's Germany, Dr. Robert Ley was an exception. The boss of Germany's Labor Front was a rather ordinary little man, fond of his bottle and frantically fervent in his adulation of Hitler and Naziism. "National Socialism has made an end to the bone-softening doctrine of life negation," he once said. "Germans are fanatics of life." When he was arrested last May, he moaned: "Life [without Hitler] does not mean a damn thing...
...meant what he said. One evening last week, in his war criminal's cell at Nürnberg, Robert Ley hanged himself...
...Labor Front Leader Robert Ley: "I don't see how you can make laws after things have been done. Even God first made the Ten Commandments and judged people by them afterward...
...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...