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...rnberg's warm, well-lighted courtroom, the lawyers tried to get the point across?these Nazis had killed 6,000,000 Jews. The spectators nodded. They had heard it before...
...untellable crime could ever be told, Nürnberg's evidence, as clear and specific as last week's robbery, had told it. But its immense inhumanity made it almost immune to translation into human terms...
...gathered," said the presiding judge, Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, "to try crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity." With this mildly prejudicial statement, the Nürnberg trial opened. The four judges and their four alternates on the bench of the international tribunal sat reassuringly close to their respective national flags...
...nitz stood trial with other ranking Nazis at Nürnberg, but was not accused of any atrocities and received the lightest sentence: ten years. Released from Spandau prison in 1956, he retreated into obscurity, seeing only occasional visitors. Some West Germans felt last week that Dönitz, dying so long after the Nazi era, should have been suitably honored for his naval career. Others disagreed. Said Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung in an editorial: "A line should be clearly and properly drawn between today's navy and Hitler's, between today's Federal...
Wagner, Die Meistersinger (London, 5 LPs, 1976). The man who led the first recorded Ring cycle, Sir Georg Solti, turns from gods and heroes to a warm, glowing account of everyday life in old Nürnberg...