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...last act in the drama of the war crimes trial that had begun ten months before. It moved swiftly. Göring took off his headphones, turned swiftly about, was ushered to the elevator outside. On the way he passed Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...champagne salesman who had risen to become Foreign Minister to Adolf Hitler, stood before the bar, adjusted headphones with shaking hands, listened. Again the sentence: death. Ribbentrop (whose von turned out to be a social-climbing affectation) quivered, seemed about to fall. The M.P.'s helped him from the courtroom...
...days before the sentences most of the 21 defendants in the greatest criminal trial in world history had said their farewells to their wives: Emmy Göring, Frau von Ribbentrop, Frau Schacht, et al. Now, for those who had escaped death there was ahead a fast trip to prison. For the rest, the eleven who had been sentenced to death, there was the gallows, reportedly within two weeks "in the Nürnberg area...
...impending fate, was unmoved by the speech. But many of his fellow defendants -who had hoped to find refuge in their fields of public opinion, industry, finance -blanched as Jackson inexorably linked men like Journalist Streicher ("the venomous vulgarian") to Banker Schacht ("facade of starched respectability"); Diplomat von Ribbentrop ("salesman of deception") to Youth Leader von Schirach ("poisoner of a generation"); Diplomat von Papen ("pious agent of an infidel regime") to Slave Labor Boss Sauckel ("the cruelest slave driver since the Pharaohs...
Poker-faced and ramrod-stiff in his military grey, the first of the generals faced the court at Nürnberg last week. In Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel's defense, there was none of Hermann Göring's brilliant, bravura justification of Naziism. Like sweating, terrified Ribbentrop, who testified before him-but in a very different manner-the once proud Wehrmacht chief hid behind his Führer's back...