Word: rnberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great function of the Nürnberg trials was not the often disputed function of pinning the guilt for World War II on a few top Nazis. A decade removed from those victorious and, perhaps, vindictive days, it becomes increasingly clear that the most important function of Nürnberg was the amassing of a vast amount of firsthand evidence on exactly what activated the Third Reich. It was Hitler's idea that the whole Nazi organization would, like millions of its victims, dis, appear into Nacht und Nebel (night and fog) if he failed, and to.this end, just...
...deliberately confused the powers and duties of these services in order to divide and control Himmler, Heydrich and other aides who never ceased to intrigue against each other and frequently arrested and killed weaker rivals. But Gestapo remained the generic term for the instrument which (according to Nürnberg estimates) in twelve years destroyed twelve million people...
...anthropological collection of "subhumans"). Whereas the Russians' prime concern seemed to be confessions of self-guilt, the Germans tortured mainly to extract admissions of others' guilt. When justice finally caught up with an MVD man he usually went stoically to his death, but at Nürnberg many Gestapomen wept and whimpered...
...flung before the German people at the time their sovereignty was restored, as a brutal reminder of the price they paid for political folly, as a hair of the mad dog that bit them. Based on a book by Michael A. Musmanno, a U.S. judge at the Nürnberg trials, the film tells the story of the last ten days in Hitler's headquarters in Berlin, at the end of World War II. Facts are respected wherever facts are known, and the fiction is laid in with a sober sense of historical responsibility. Hitler is not ridiculed; Erich...
...Last week Kiel police arrested Clauberg, the first Russian returnee to be taken into custody. Said Hendrik van Dam: "It does not matter whether this pathetic creature goes to jail for 15 years or one year or one day. It is history that matters. Many people, dismissing Nürnberg as a 'victor's vengeance' are skeptical of Nürnberg evidence. We mean to show that this man is guilty not under the victor's law but under German...