Word: niirnberg
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...three years the victor nations have been trying war criminals. No central agency of any government has an exact record of all the cases, convictions and sentences. The following tabulation is probably fairly accurate. It includes the major German cases at Niirnberg and the "minor"* cases at Dachau; the major Japanese cases at Tokyo (TIME, Nov. 22) and other cases at Yokohama and in China; other cases in the Pacific and Mediterranean theaters...
...packed his briefcase again. In went: the draft of an article he had promised to write for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a report on RFC consolidation, a report by the monetary committee of the International Chamber of Commerce, an article on the Niirnberg trials, the Economic Report of the President. In a corner of his office he noticed one of the brooms which Ohio's Congressman George Bender, for a gag, had distributed to his G.O.P. colleagues when the new-broom Republican Congress had convened. Senator Taft, recalling the nasty morning, took it along. His car would be covered with...
Died. Alfred Kornfeld, 26, TIME correspondent in Germany and at the Nurnberg trials, former U.S. Army master sergeant, who was thrice wounded, won the Silver Star in action; after a jeep accident while on his way from Berlin to Niirnberg...
Germany had reaped the whirlwind: Cologne Cathedral, nicked and shaken, stood like a mother without children, in the dead city. Dresden's baroque beauty lay shattered from an aerial bombardment in the last weeks of the war. It was as though such medieval beauties as Darmstadt, Niirnberg and Hildesheim, with its steep-gabled Butchers' Guildhouse, had never been...
...doubts had their answerers. Most defenders of Niirnberg fell back on the U.S.'s Robert Jackson, who at the trial's start had summed up the still precarious but deeply urgent aspirations of millions in the memorable sentence: "If there is no law now under which to try these people, it is about time the human race made some...