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...Gustav turned all over to his son, then 37, in 1943-shortly after Allied bombers began the raids that eventually turned a third of Krupp's Essen plants to rubble. After the Allied victory Alfried took the rap for Gustav, by then mentally incompetent, and was sentenced at Niirnberg to twelve years for using slave labor and "plundering occupied territory." Later, the U.S. acknowledged the injustice of the Niirnberg sentence, released Krupp and allowed him to take control of his firm once again...
...other speakers. Yes, there were some radicals and fanatics and Viet Cong flags. They were more than counterbalanced by the overwhelming majority of participants: everyday people who believe that patriotism demands more than unquestioning support of one's government, who remember that the standard defense at Niirnberg was "I only followed orders...
Died. Pierre J. Huss, 63, longtime Hearst byliner who catalogued the Third Reich from Hitler's early rise to the final justice of Niirnberg, at first failing to recognize the true Nazi intent and reporting, one month after the invasion of Poland and seven months before the blitzkrieg through Belgium and The Netherlands, that Germany had "no aim to wage a war of offense," but later scooping fellow newsmen on the Hitler-Eva Braun suicide pact and becoming one of the best spotters of Communist subterfuge during a 20-year stint at the United Nations; of a heart attack...
...National Velvet." "Ingrid's really like a pixie," said one of her friends. Ingrid ("Fiffi") Finger, 19, is no such thing! Pixies do not come 5 ft. 7 in., 36-23-36-although the figures were spritely enough to convince the judges that Ingrid, a Miss Germany from Niirnberg, should be crowned Miss International Beauty at Long Beach, Calif. As usual, all the other girls in the contest beamed pluckily through their disappointment, but back in Manhattan there was one who didn't: Regina Ruta, the Lithuanian-born blonde who was chosen Miss New York City last month...
PETER F. FACKLER Niirnberg, Germany...