Word: rnberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused with wit-wandering Rudolf Hess, now on trial at Nürnberg...
Died. Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, 67, who as Hitler's first Minister of War began to build up the almost-all-conquering Wehrmacht; of a heart attack; in Nürnberg. In 1938, ostensibly because he married his "socially impossible" stenographer, ardent Nazi von Blomberg lost his job at the insistence of the Officer Corps, spent World War II on Capri in retirement...
...threw one immediately: as soon as he filed he headed for Germany to observe the Nürnberg trials. And-while minor politicos shuddered-he also explained why. "The first month of a campaign is when things go wrong and all the silly little decisions have to be made and when party members begin to hate the candidate. I'll be away...
...days later the Moscow radio picked up Churchill's charge that Russia had lowered "an iron curtain" across Europe, and retorted that U.S. and British "conservatives" were using "dirty methods of slander." The most significant comment of all came from a high-ranking Russian prosecutor at Nürnberg. After dutiful indignation that Churchill should have abused U.S. hospitality by such a speech, he continued...
...defense at Nürnberg opened its case last week, the Russian judges, aloof as statues, sat at the far end of the tribunal's bench. In their hard eyes, the fate of the accused was settled. But the 22 defense lawyers would fight hard, even though they had to defend the indefensible...