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...same elsewhere in Nurnberg. Said a British secretary quartered at the U.S. "Girls' Town" (quarters for clerks and stenographers et al.): "When I get up I usually find two American lieutenants shaving in the girls' bathroom." With warmer weather, blanket outings have become more frequent. Only officers can take jeeps from the motor pools after hours, and they drive off with their Fraulein to secluded spots...
First Frank had been hysterical. When the U.S. Army brought him to Mondorf Interrogation Center, he was clad only in lace panties and sobbed: "I am a criminal." Later he tried to commit suicide. After the Nurnberg trials opened Frank became a Catholic, prayed daily in his cell. On the witness stand he was fervent: "I have at last gained an insight into the terrible atrocities. ... I can't allow it before my conscience that responsibility . . . should be handed over to ... small people alone.... I have used words which I am sorry now I used." Only once...
...Justices Reed, Douglas and Jackson disqualified themselves (they had all from time to time fought the holding companies). Justice Jackson is still at the war crimes trial in Nurnberg...
...word occurred more often in Nurnberg's testimony than the word "death." It buzzed through the quadrilingual earphones: "Tod . . . mort . . . smert . . . death." It screamed from the piles of transcribed Nazi speeches: "Death for the Poles! . . . death for the Russians! . . . death for the Jews! . . . death for the traitors! . . ." But in the six weeks the U.S. and British prosecutors had taken to present their meticulous case, no one had spoken of death for the defendants...
...Ultimate Step. Prosecutor Jackson defended this pragmatic approach on the pragmatic ground that the end justified the only practicable means. In the prosecution view, the object of Nurnberg was not merely to punish these particular offenders, but to evolve from their trials a body of effective international law against all aggressive war. Said Jackson...