Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the French took over. To the rostrum stepped François de Menthon, a mild-looking law professor with a scraggly mustache and professorially stooped shoulders, who had been a member of the French underground and was now chief French prosecutor at Nürnberg. In a daylong oration he opened France's case, which deals with slave labor, looting and atrocities in six occupied countries. Said he: "A tortured peoples' craving for justice is the basic foundation of France's call...
...premiere of a Shostakovich symphony. From the balcony seven baby spotlights painted the orchestra pit an eerie yellow. There was a nervous clearing of throats. But no baton was raised. Tonight the program was a trial of German war criminals, and the conductor was the public prosecutor...
...Minds. There was Julius Streicher's claim that he was a thinker, not a thug. Countered the prosecution: as Nazidom's chief prophet of hate and as editor of his obscenely anti-Semitic Stürmer, he had flooded Germany with pseudoscientific, racist hogwash. Said the British prosecutor: "He leaves behind him as a legacy for Europe and the civilized world, millions of young warped and distorted minds ... a whole people poisoned with the lust of hatred, cruelty and murder." (The other defendants pointedly turned their backs on Streicher...
Task Force D. Assistant Prosecutor Lieut. Harris Whitney, U.S.N., took up the case of scar-faced Ernst Kaltenbrunner, successor to bloody Hangman Reinhard Heydrich as the Gestapo's No. 2 man. Sample charges: ordering the murder of civilians in occupied countries, devising a system for selecting gas-chamber candidates, encouraging the lynching of Allied airmen...
...prosecution was boring into its most difficult task: mass indictment of the entire German General Staff and High Command (some 114 top generals and admirals) for cooperating with the Nazis and plotting aggressive war beyond the normal duties of a patriotic officer. Said Assistant Prosecutor Colonel Telford Taylor, U.S.A.: "We respect the distinguished profession of arms. . . . We do not condemn a man for being a locksmith, but we do condemn him for taking advantage of his profession to break into his neighbor's house...