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Elsie and Henry have not always lived where people could drop in for a snack or just to visit. Such things were impossible in Hitler's Germany by 1938. Until then, Henry had been in the meat business in Nuremberg, where the Baumanns lived comfortably with their two small sons. The Nazis changed all that. "We never planned to leave Germany," Elsie recalls, "we were happy. Then Hitler came, and we saw there could be no more happiness...
...then putting our honorable generals and admirals on trial in Nuremberg, hanging and imprisoning them for merely obeying orders like good soldiers, and calling it justice. Ach, terrible, inhuman. And what were you Americans doing while we fought to keep the Bolsheviks out of Europe? You were bombing our cities, killing our women and children." Glances of bitter experience mixed with the Germans' current attitude of mature forgiveness for our sins assured silence for Professor Glaubich's further dialectic...
...Nuremberg Revisited. "Greenhouse With Cyclamens," principal of these essays, begins with the Nuremberg trials, ends with Western Germany's trade revival under Allied occupation. Those who believe "it was right that the Nazis should have been punished for what they did to the Jews" but not right that they should have been punished for "aggressive war" get a sharp rap over the knuckles. Legalist West argues that precisely the reverse is true; no law ever existed under which the leaders of one nation could punish the leaders of another for having murdered their own nationals, whereas "aggressive...
...diametrically opposed to democratic German law because it bound the accused men, on pain of perjury, to speak the truth on oath, whereas German law would have given them .the right to lie to the full in their own defense. To the prisoners and their many supporters in Germany, Nuremberg was a put-up piece of legal chicanery, fit only to arouse derisive laughter. And such laughter, says Reporter West (who covered part of the trials), was heard frequently and horribly in the Nuremberg courtroom. A ruling against women visitors showing their legs (unfair to "the sex-starved defendants...
Jackson, who has been a member of the Supreme Court since 1941, served after the second world war as United States chief counsel in the Nuremberg war crime trials. Before his appointment to the bench he had served as general counsel of the Internal Revenue Bureau, Solicitor General, and Attorney General of the United States...