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Baron Konstantin von Neurath, fluent linguist and brilliant diplomatist, had suavely served the Weimar Republic as Foreign Minister, then without apparent twinge of conscience served Hitler. In 1941 he finally resigned as Hitler's "Protector" of Bohemia-Moravia, but by then he had gone too far; the verdict at Nürnberg in 1946 was: "For carrying out and assuming responsibility for the execution of the foreign policy of the Nazi conspirators, and authorizing, directing and taking part in war crimes and crimes against humanity-fifteen years' imprisonment...
...Audience. He was the only one of the war criminals in Spandau who got along with all six of his companions. Albert Speer, No. 5, Hitler's production genius, said: "If we didn't have Von Neurath, we would all go crazy." They were an ill-assorted lot: fat, bald, obscene Walter Funk (No. 6); rich, young, suicidal Baldur von Schirach (No. 1); dangerous, unrepentant ex-Admiral Karl Doenitz (No. 2); weird, half-sane Rudolf Hess (No. 7): arthritic, pious ex-Admiral Erich Raeder (No. 4). Von Neurath would recall for them the glittering days when...
...always courteous and rarely complained, as they did. But to his wife, the baroness, he wrote: "I don't think I can stand it much longer." Repeatedly, Britain, France and the U.S. suggested to Russia (which shares in the running of Spandau) that old Baron von Neurath be let out of prison to die. Each time the Russians said no. Sir Winston Churchill confessed in the House of Commons: "Von Neurath has my sympathy...
...THESE MEN AS "SEVEN OF THE BLACKEST NAZIS STILL ALIVE" IS CONTRARY TO FACT, BIASED, AND SERVES TO PREJUDICE THE PENDING APPEALS FOR THESE MEN. RUDOLF HESS TOOK POSITIVE ACTION FOR PEACE EARLY IN WORLD WAR II. GRAND ADMIRAL DOENITZ AND ADMIRAL RAEDER WERE COURAGEOUS NAVAL LEADERS. BARON VON NEURATH, ALBERT SPEER, WALTER FUNK AND BALDUR VON SCHIRACH WERE FAITHFUL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICIALS. ALL OF THESE GENTLEMEN DID THEIR DUTY AS THEY SAW IT AND THEIR MISFORTUNE LAY MERELY IN BEING ON THE LOSING SIDE ... A COMMITTEE OF PROMINENT AMERICANS HAS BEEN FORMED TO WORK FOR THE RELEASE OF THESE...
Ailing & Aging. Last week a crack appeared in the secrecy wall. Frau Walter Funk, who occasionally visits her husband in the prison, called a press conference in Bonn. The Spandau prisoners are ailing and aging, she reported. Hess is "even more insane and often screams." Neurath is almost blind and must be led about the prison. She painted a tearful picture of the dethroned supermen (actually they have four doctors to guard their health, gardens to work in, books to read...