Word: nuremberg
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...national legend at 17 in the film The Wizard of Oz by singing of her longing to be somewhere Over the Rainbow. She attempted suicide in 1950 but then had wildly successful concert comebacks and won Oscar nominations for dramatic roles in A Star Is Born and Judgment at Nuremberg. She married her fifth husband, Mickey Deans, 34, a former discotheque manager, in London...
...those who do not act when they should as well as at those who commit a crime. He scorns David Ben-Gurion for saving his friendship with Konrad Adenauer in the face of Adenauer's appointment of Hans Globke as a cabinet minister. Globke wrote the commentaries to the Nuremberg race laws, Grass points out. He agrees with the German students who hate Axel Casar Springer, the press lord who preaches violence, who is a "co-chancellor, who is accountable to no Parliament, who cannot be voted out of office, and who has set up a state within a state...
Under certain circumstances it is right to kill. At Nuremberg the German leaders were tried for "crimes against the conscience of humanity" for what they did to the Jews. They were members of a legal government, and, in a real sense, only followed orders, and had clearly believed what they were doing was right. Nevertheless the existence of a "natural law" that transcended human law was made the basis for a legal judgment--they were hanged and rightly so. No doubt if the Germans had won the war they would have hanged their share of people but they would...
...minds of many men in many lands, the Krupp name became synonymous with the cold pursuit of cash, steel and power, indeed, with the shame and fortune of Germany itself. Early in the century, H. G. Wells could place the dynasty "at the very core of evil." At Nuremberg in 1945, the judges condemned the head of the house of Krupp for "crimes against humanity...
...from even the tooth and claw morality accepted in earlier times, extending to calculated genocide, they made no moral distinction, possibly, in part, out of sheer inertia. Unlike most Germans, moreover, Alfried was perhaps powerful enough to have restrained the Führer. He did nothing. Long after the Nuremberg tribunal sentenced him to twelve years in prison, he, like Eichmann and the others, protested that he was just doing his duty. Released in 1951 through a controversial act of U.S. clemency, he soon broke his pledge to the Allies never again to produce coal or steel and began selling...