Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the Law. On May 2, 1945, President Truman selected Jackson to serve as the chief U.S. prosecutor for the Nürnberg trials of Nazi war criminals. Jackson was lawyer enough to realize that the Nazi leaders were being tried on ex post facto grounds. He excused this by saying that the war criminals had been so wicked, so inhumane, that they "cannot bring themselves within the reason of the rule which in some systems of jurisprudence prohibits ex post facto laws." In his opening statement, Jackson said: "We must never forget that the record on which we judge...
...went to London and studied political science (under Socialist Harold Laski) and law. Intending to stay six months, he stayed for 30 years, became active in the British Labor Party, once was even elected a London councilman. But years later, when Britain went to war against Nazi Germany, Menon joined the Communists in damning both sides (though he marched in anti-Nazi demonstrations). Once he was asked whether the Indian people would prefer British or Nazi rule. "You might as well ask a fish if it prefers to be fried in butter or margarine," he replied...
...Chief Clement Attlee: "The whole effect [of his report on his trip to Red China] was that we can do business with Peking ... It is a sinister theme ... It is also a tempting theme ... It was the hope of the Foreign Office and also of Neville Chamberlain that both Nazi Germany and Communist Russia would destroy each other by their complementary antagonism . . . Kicking this dream around is like pretending that there are nice burglars and nasty ones...
Artist Wiinblad, 35, was a struggling painter of children's portraits who worked as a typesetter to round out his diet during the Nazi occupation of Denmark. Friends at the Arts and Crafts School introduced him to ceramics. Fascinated, he defied the Nazi curfew to slip into the school at night to work at the kilns. After his first ceramics show proved a critical and popular success, he started his own shop with three kilns and two helpers. They worked long and seriously through the week. But on Saturday they had fun, making spontaneous, gay pieces. Since then, these...
...school, and his wife were prim and proper Berliners who suffered privation in silence but protested peevishly against such innovations as lipstick and slacks, which they thought "incorrect." Elder son Kurt was dead or a prisoner in Russia; Fritz, the younger boy, was a good-for-nothing young Nazi who had once betrayed his parents to the Gestapo and who soon would betray them again. Author Faviell's favorites were the two Altmann girls, as different as flesh and fire. Ursula, the pretty one, had been raped by a band of Russians, though it probably was not the first...