Word: nurnberg
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...point at issue is one that plagues all armies: Should an officer obey orders that he believes violate his conscience or his honor? German generals were found guilty at Nurnberg and executed by the Allies because they did not place conscience above orders from Hitler. Soviet officers at Budapest were reportedly executed by the Red army when they did put conscience above orders and refused to shoot down Hungarian freedom fighters. In World War II, Charles de Gaulle's conscience drove him to disobey the orders of Marshal Pétain when he escaped to Britain...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Judgment at Nurnberg, a dramatic semidocumentary, with Claude Rains, Melvyn Douglas...
...Urrutia kidding when he says the captives will be tried "in the same manner as war criminals were tried in Germany?" The Nurnberg tribunal condemned twelve Germans to hang. Now Castro's regime is slaughtering hundreds...
...beautiful wife and enthusiastic, high-placed friends who confided their problems to him and in return got the feel of the country from his shrewd, perceptive articles. When World War II begins, Ro goes right along with it, from blitzed London to the Pacific to the Nurnberg trials. He comes home still carrying in his heart the words spoken to him by H. G. Wells: "If you Americans can't find some way of carrying the burden of Empire, we are sunk...
...Robert Gerald Storey, 63, dean of Southern Methodist University's law school, a onetime Texas assistant attorney general, executive counsel to Justice Robert H. Jackson at the Nurnberg war crimes trials, onetime president of the American Bar Association. Democrat Storey is credited with building up S.M.U.'s respected Southwestern Legal Center, which includes the university law school, a foundation for research and study, and a graduate school of U.S. and foreign...