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...absentia of war crimes and sentenced to death. Judge Cerdini will rule later on the claim. Barbie, now charged with "crimes against humanity," including the deportation of 44 Jewish children from a village near Lyons to Auschwitz, told the court his prosecution was "like a revival of the Nuremberg trial. I had the impression that I ran around Lyons with a rifle in my hand and chased Jews...
...your story on the deportation of Karl Linnas ((ETHICS, April 20)), you ask, "Should the U.S. use Soviet evidence against accused war criminals?" The answer is contained in a B'nai B'rith report that says, "Just as the leading lawyers at the Nuremberg trials ((discovered)) . . . no American court found that the Soviet Union provided false evidence. Neither was it found that any Soviet witness lied in his or her testimony...
...convention were at a prayer breakfast and for a speech that associated the runners who had just carried the Olympic flame across America with the torch-bearing Statue of Liberty. The crowd burst into cheers of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" This transcended normal politics. It was the politics of ecstasy. A Nuremberg rally without the menace...
...office, so irksome to other Presidents, were the things he liked best and did best. He gave out medals and awards enthusiastically (and generously: the military granted more medals for % Grenada than actual troops landed there). Heroic government, on the epic scale, was his favorite movie -- the happy Nuremberg rally...
...Weizsacker also holds himself to the same moral standard to which he holds his homeland. His father, Ernst von Weizsacker, held high posts in Hitler's Foreign Service and later was tried in Nuremberg for war crimes. But the younger von Wiezsacker, a member of the German Army, consistently calls that army's defeat a "liberation" from Nazi barbarism--much to the displeasure and discomfort of his fellow citizens...