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Joseph Hajek, a 21-year-old refugee from Czechoslovakia, was proud of ranking first in his class at Nürnberg Technical High School. Last week the school standings listed Joseph in second place. Dejected, he walked out of the class. Next morning he cycled to the Nürnberg zoo, climbed over the brick wall into the lions' den. The lions ignored him, so he splashed them with water...
...published The Rocket into Interplanetary Space, a book explaining many principles that enthusiastic space men still use in their projects to fly to the moon. Herr Oberth is now a rather seedy father of space flight. Gaunt and brooding, he lives in a dilapidated ancestral castle near Nürnberg...
...Papen was arrested and tried at Nürnberg on charges of having conspired to wage war. He was acquitted, but the British prosecutor, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, told him: "You had seen your own friends, your own servants, murdered around you . . . The only reason which could have . . . made you take one job after another from the Nazis was that you sympathized with their work...
...questioned the value of the United Nations, delimited as it was by the veto, its concept based solely on "peace and security," not on "law and justice." He took the unpopular position, as so many of his positions were, of denouncing the Nürnberg trials, which "violate the fundamental principle of American law that a man cannot be tried under an ex post facto statute ... In these trials we have accepted the Russian idea of the purpose of trials-government policy and not justice...
...Army hotel in NÜrnberg, Oatis, nervously chewing gum and chain-smoking, appeared before 100 newsmen for his first press conference. Asked about everything from his imprisonment and trial to his confession and treatment by the Reds, he seemed to find it hard to tell what he had undergone. Said he: "It would be very difficult for me to describe what happened so that I could be understood by anyone not familiar with such proceedings, or with what is done, individually ... If what I was heard to say or was reported to have said during the trial sounded like...