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...Blackest Nazis. Behind its imposing, heavily guarded barricade are seven sick and lonely men, the only inmates. But they are seven of the blackest Nazis still alive: Rudolf Hess, one of Hitler's closest confidants; Karl Doenitz, once commander of the German navy; Baron Konstantin von Neurath, former proconsul of Czechoslovakia; Albert Speer, Hitler's production genius; Walter Funk, director of Nazi finances; Baldur von Schirach, leader-hero of Nazi youth; and ex-Admiral Erich Raeder...
Constantin von Neurath, oldest of the defendants (73), onetime protector of Czechoslovakia; 15 years...
...list had no glaring omissions, with the possible exception of Field Marshal Alfred Kesselring and Industrialist Fritz von Thyssen. Industrialist 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...
...Constantin von Neurath, first Nazi Foreign Minister, ex-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. He was also taken by French forces...
...removal as a signal that the time had come to strike against the Nazis? Three months ago Allied intelligence officers had heard reports of a Wehrmacht coup in the making. Rumors linked Rundstedt's name with men like Finance Wizard Hjalmar Schacht, onetime Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath, Baron von Weizsacker, Ambassador to the Vatican, former Oberbürgermeister Karl Goerdeler of Leipzig and numerous less well-known diplomatic, industrial and old-time Government figures...