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...World War II as a Navy commander, became legal aide to Major General William ("Wild Bill") Donovan (no kin) in the Office of Strategic Services. After the war, he worked as a top assistant to Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson in prosecuting Nazi war criminals at Nürnberg. When Soviet Spymaster Abel was caught, Donovan was his court-appointed attorney. In arguing against the death penalty for Abel, Donovan made a prophetic plea: "It is possible that in the foreseeable future, an American of equivalent rank will be captured by the Soviet Union or an ally. At such time...
...first installment, Fox alone has taken six years of work. To underpin his imagination, Hughes read through the entire Nürnberg trial transcript, traveled to Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Poland to interview "dozens" of people who knew Hitler personally in the Munich days-including a boy who used to call Hitler "Uncle Dolph." His prize find: an old newspaper file containing the diary of a participant in the 1923 Munich putsch...
Continental Classroom (NBC, 6:30-7 a.m.). Tel ford Taylor, lawyer, writer, and a U.S. representative at the Nürnberg trials, speaks on American Government...
...rational, though no doubt a wicked statesman," writes Taylor primly. "His object was the steady expansion of German power, not a theatrical display of glory." This is an odd assessment of a man who wallowed in the theatrical, whether haranguing the chanting mobs under the searchlights at Nürnberg or accepting the total destruction of Germany as a suitable Götterdämmerung to accompany his own demise. His nationalism, far from being the common variety, was the most virulent racism the world has ever known...
Died. The Rev. Henry F. Gerecke, 68, Lutheran minister and longtime Protestant chaplain to several penal institutions who served as a chaplain at the Nürnberg war crimes trials after World War II, won the affection and trust of several high-ranking Nazi prisoners (among them: Julius Streicher, General Alfred Jodl, Dr. Hans Frank), prayed at the execution of six of the convicted and was disappointed when Hermann Göring, who he thought had made a '"sincere" return to religion, preferred a cyanide of potassium capsule to his final ministrations; of a heart attack; in Chester...